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Maria Zakharova replies US State Department claim on possible terror attacks in Russia

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Maria Zakharova replies US State Department claim on possible terror attacks in Russia


29.09.2016

Photo: © RIA Novosti/ Mikhail Alaeddin According to the official representative of the Russia’s MFA Maria Zakharova, the statement on the consequences of the war in Syria for Russia made by a representative of the US State Department John Kirby cannot have been made by a diplomat, reports RIA Novosti.

“Don’t you think that sort of ventriculoquism about “troops in body bags”, “terror attacks in Russian towns and cities” and “aircraft losses” looks like the execution of an “Attack!” dog command and not a comment made by a diplomat?”, she wrote on Facebook. Mrs. Zakharova also asked the diplomat to specify what kind of terrorists he had meant and whether they belonged to the “moderate opposition”.

Earlier, Washington tried to daunt Russia threatening that extremists would attack both Russian servicemen in Syria and perform terror attacks in Russian towns and cities. According to John Kirby, if Moscow keeps on with military operations in Syria, the war will never finish there, reports RIA Novosti.

He expressed his confidence that militiamen belonging to terrorist organizations would expand the geography of their terror attacks using the chance of absence of government power in Syria. As a result, Russia’s losses in Syria would increase and Russian servicemen in Syria would die and military hardware would be destructed. “Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags and they will continue to lose resources, even perhaps more aircraft,” Kirby said.

The U.S. authorities traditionally blame the Russian and Syrian authorities for choosing objects of peaceful infrastructure, local residents and moderate opposition as their targets for attacks but they have never given any proofs of the facts.

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