Russia on Monday denied a US newspaper report that its warplanes bombed four hospitals in rebel-held territory in
Syria over a period of 12 hours this year.
The
Russian defence ministry rubbished the claim in a report by The
New York Times, saying "the alleged 'evidence' provided by the NYT is not worth even the paper it was printed on".
The May strikes -- which the newspaper tied to
Moscow through Russian radio recordings, plane spotter logs and accounts by witnesses -- are part of a larger pattern of medical facilities targeted by forces supporting Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad in the country's devastating civil war.