MOSCOW, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday during a televised meeting with President Vladimir Putin that Russia had for the first time struck Islamic State targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine in the Mediterranean.

Putin told Shoigu at the same meeting that Russia should not open the flight recorder of the Russian warplane downed by Turkey recently near the Turkish-Syrian border without the presence of international experts. (Reporting by Alexander Winning and Anton Zverev; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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