Delivering his annual state of the nation address yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will not ignore what he described as Turkey’s “aiding of terrorists”, adding that the November shooting down of the Sukhoi Su-24 plane was a “treacherous war crime”.

He said Turkey will ‘more than once’ regret shooting down the Russian jet near the Syrian-Turkey border and that  and that Turkey will regret it more than once. Russia has already banned some Turkish food imports as part of a wider retaliatory sanctions package.

Putin said: "We are not planning to engage in military saber-rattling with Turkey. .


But if anyone thinks that having committed this awful war crime, the murder of our people, that they are going to get away with some measures concerning their tomatoes or some limits on construction and other sectors, they are sorely mistaken.

We shall remind them many times about what they’ve done and they will have cause to regret the actions more than once. We know what needs to be done. It appears that Allah decided to punish the ruling clique of Turkey by depriving them of wisdom and judgment."