Nato meets as Russia confirms one of two pilots dead after jet shot down - as it happened

Russia has also now put out its own image in an attempt to counter the radar picture provided earlier by Turkey (See 10.26).
While the Turkish image appeared to show that the Russian jet briefly flew over southern Turkey before it as shot down, Russia’s suggests that there has been no airspace violation.
Warning that we’re headed for the territory surrounding the recriminations over the shooting down last year of a Malaysian airline over Ukraine, Moscow-based Alec Luhn tweets:

We’re going to wind down our live blog coverage of events here for now.

Updated at 7.19pm GMT

There has been abundance of images today surrounding the downed Russian jet, which has generated suspicions among some.
Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor, asks:

Elsewhere in the same conflict zone, an Assyrian group has said that the Islamic State (Isis) militant group have released 10 more Assyrian Christian hostages they had held captive in Syria since February.
The Associated Press reports:

The 10 were part of more than 220 Assyrian Christians captured by the extremist group after it overran communities on the southern bank of Khabur River in the northeastern Syrian province of Hassakeh.
The Assyrian Network for Human Rights said the 10 were released on Tuesday and that they are all in good condition. The Stockholm-based network says there are five women among the released.
It says the release brings the number of Assyrian hostages that have so far been released to 98.
The network also says the release was the result of ongoing mediation efforts by the head of the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria.

More now from the Russian military, and about that new statement that a marine on a helicopter sent in to search for the crew of the downed jet also died.
Russia’s military general staff is quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that one of the pilots of the Su-24 warplane that was shot down by Turkey was killed by groundfire as he parachuted from his crippled plane.
General staff spokesman Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi, added that rebels in Syria fired on a Russian helicopter that was searching for the two pilots of the Su-24.
The shooting killed one crew member on the Mi-8 helicopter and forced it to land in neutral territory, he says.
The rest of the crew was evacuated. Rudskoi also said that Russian radar data showed that Turkish warplanes had violated Syrian airspace in the course of shooting down the Russian plane

When Putin labeled Turkey “accomplices of terrorists,” he was hinting at complex relationship which includes links between senior Isis figures and Turkish officials, explains the Guardian’s Martin Chulov in this analysis.
Turkey’s international airports have also been busy. Many, if not most, of the estimated 15,000-20,000 foreign fighters to have joined the Islamic State (Isis) have first flown into Istanbul or Adana, or arrived by ferry along its Mediterranean coast.
The influx has offered fertile ground to allies of Assad who, well before a Turkish jet shot down a Russian fighter on Tuesday, had enabled, or even supported Isis. Vladimir Putin’s reference to Turkey as “accomplices of terrorists” is likely to resonate even among some of Ankara’s backers.
From midway through 2012, when jihadis started to travel to Syria, their presence was apparent at all points of the journey to the border.
At Istanbul airport, in the southern cities of Hatay and Gaziantep – both of which were staging points – and in the border villages.
Foreigners on their way to fight remained fixtures on these routes until late in 2014 when, after continued pressure from the EU states and the US, coordinated efforts were made to turn them back.