‘US Could Send Terrorists From Syria To Ukraine’
Damascus, March 1: US special services could send members of the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia), as well as other radical groups in Syria, to Ukraine, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik.
“Based on the analysis, we can say that this is quite possibly true. We, as a state, have evidence that the US military in Syria is transferring terrorists from one place to another, especially members of the IS and Jabhat al-Nusra,” Jaafari said.
He told Sputnik that the US had transferred terrorists from Syria to Afghanistan and Burkina-Faso and that the use of mercenaries is Washington’s well-established practice.
“So one should not be surprised, and we do not exclude, that tomorrow IS terrorists will be sent to Ukraine,” Jaafari said.
He added that Western states have been supporting far-right nationalist radicals in Ukraine. “Many years later people appeared to declared their readiness to support the neo-Nazis in Ukraine. But they received the support of these countries and the support of the special services only because they are against Russia.
The West will not hesitate to arm the devil against Russia if it is in their interests,” Jaafari told Sputnik.
The Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister argued that if Russia had any “real allies” in WWII, they would not be supporting neo-Nazis today.
On Sunday, EU Foreign Ministers agreed to supply 450 million euros ($500 million) worth of arms to the Kiev forces. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters after a virtual EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting late on Sunday that the aid would also include 50 million euros for non-lethal supplies, such as fuel and protective equipment, and the EU was also going to provide fighter jets to Kiev.
The US, Canada and Australia have also approved lethal defensive assistance to Ukraine. Russia had launched a military operation in Ukraine at the end of February.
