US coalition spared ISIS oil production facilities in Syria – Russian MoD — RT News
The US-led worldwide coalition didn’t bomb oil manufacturing services captured by Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) militants in Syria, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov has acknowledged.
“Miraculously, solely oil fields, captured by ISIS permitting the militants to earn tens of hundreds of thousands of each month on unlawful oil gross sales and recruit mercenaries from all around the world, didn’t come underneath the US bombardment,” Konashenkov stated.
CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged earlier that Russia is utilizing a “scorched-earth coverage” in Syria.
“What the Russians have carried out in Syria when it comes to among the scorched-earth coverage that they’ve pursued which have led to devastation and 1000’s upon 1000’s of harmless deaths, that’s not one thing that the United States would ever do in any of those navy conflicts,” Brennan advised PBS on Tuesday.
The CIA head “ought to have recognized and remembered” historical past, Konashenkov stated, stating the US nuclear bombings of Japan throughout WW2, in addition to its later navy operations in Vietnam and Laos, “for which nobody within the US has been punished but.”
“I’d additionally wish to remind [John Brennan] that worldwide wars of the previous a long time unleashed by the US because of false CIA information in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya have all been began, continued, and completed with a destroyed financial infrastructure of those states by the US Air Force,” Konashenkov stated. It was “doubtfully a coincidence” that American corporations near the CIA and the Pentagon had “at all times” been among the many first to obtain contracts to rebuild broken infrastructure, he added.
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“John Brennan is completely conscious of the true outcomes of Russia’s actions in Syria. Specially for the CIA and particular providers alike, we introduced them in the course of the Russian Defense Ministry’s remaining board assembly,” Konashenkov acknowledged on Wednesday.
Earlier in December, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu stated greater than 12,300 sq. kilometers (four,750 sq. miles) of territories, together with nearly 500 populated areas had been free of terrorists in Syria. Since the beginning of Russia’s operation, its air pressure has performed 71,000 strikes at terrorist infrastructure targets, eliminating 725 coaching camps, 405 arms factories, and 1,500 items of navy gear. Around 35,000 militants had been killed, Shoigu stated, including that one other 9,000 had laid down their arms.
“But crucial outcome, attained with out the present US administration (or quite, with out the involvement of the CIA), along with Iran and Turkey, is an settlement with the forces of the Syrian opposition, which got here into impact on December 30, to stop hostilities and put together for negotiations in Astana on the settlement of the Syrian battle,” he concluded.
An extended-awaited nationwide ceasefire has been holding in Syria. The deal, brokered by Moscow and Ankara, was unanimously authorized by the UN Security Council on Saturday. The settlement obliges round 60,000 insurgent fighters, in addition to the Syrian authorities and allied militias, to watch the ceasefire, with Russia and Turkey listed as guarantors to the deal.
On Monday, the US-led coalition admitted to “unintentionally” killing at the very least 188 civilians in Syria and Iraq since 2014, when the airstrikes in opposition to Islamic State started. The majority of civilian casualty reviews had been rejected as “non-credible.”
The US-led coalition started finishing up airstrikes in opposition to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in 2014, with out authorization from the UN Security Council and the Syrian authorities.
Amnesty International said in October that US-led coalition forces “should conduct thorough investigations into reviews of civilian casualties from its operations [in Syria] and disclose their findings.” Eleven coalition assaults, which had been investigated by the human rights group, have killed at the very least 300 civilians throughout two years of strikes, Amnesty stated.
“We worry the US-led Coalition is considerably underestimating the hurt brought on to civilians in its operations in Syria,” Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty International’s Beirut regional workplace, stated.
“Analysis of accessible proof means that in every of those circumstances, Coalition forces did not take satisfactory precautions to reduce hurt to civilians and harm to civilian objects. Some of those assaults could represent disproportionate or in any other case indiscriminate assaults,” she added.
