Russian Defense Ministry: US Not Fighting ISIS
“The US Air Force and other parties have been conducting airstrikes for a year. We have reasons to believe that they don’t often hit terrorist targets, or rather do so very rarely,”
Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, told RT.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said:
“The refusal to share intelligence on terrorists just confirms once more what we knew from the very start, that the US goals in Syria have little to do with creating the conditions for a political process and national reconciliation. I would risk saying that by doing this the US and the countries that joined the US-led coalition are putting themselves in a politically dubious position. The question is: which side are you fighting for in this war?”
Ryabkov said that Russia would do quite well without US intelligence, since it has plenty of other sources. “There are our own means of reconnaissance. We get intelligence from a number of other countries and coordinate its flow through the Baghdad information-sharing center,”
he said.
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