Russia accuses US of "deadly provocations" in Syria

DEBKAfile ^ | 10/4/2017 | DEBKAfile

[Nextrush]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused the United States and its allies of orchestrating "deadly provocations" against Russian troops in Syria. "There are a lot of questions to US-led forces in Syria," Lavrov told pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Aswat Wednesday.

"Either they accidentally bomb Syrian troops, after which Islamic State militants launch an offensive, or they get other terrorists to attack strategically important objects...or they stage deadly provocations against our military servicemen."

Moscow has complained about what it says are suspiciously friendly ties between US-backed militias, US special forces, and the Islamic State....

Lavrov's deputy, Sergei Ryabkov, said last week that the "two-faced policy" of the United States was to blame for the death of Russian Lieutenant General Valery Asapov in Syria.......

[Nextrush]

A surprising well coordinated attack in Syria killed a Russian general and Russian setbacks in eastern Syria are believed by Russia to be the result of US forces and allies collaborating with IS.

[no-to-illegals]

As fake news as CNN, abc, cbs, NBC,MSNBC, etc, and all the fish wraps

[jjotto]

C’mon! It’s Debka...

The actual English translations of the interview available on the web do not contain the inflammatory statements claimed by Debka and other blogger-type sources.

[silverleaf]

Would we have rogue elements in deep state still supporting isis to prevent Assad and Russia from achieving victory in Syria?

Naaaaah- that would never happen ...

[no-to-illegals]

Is mclame on the loose over there???

[silverleaf]

I think McGraham has picked up the role as Neocon drummer boy

[Natufian]

Pretty hypocritcal of the Russians to start whining like this.

[dp0622]

At least it hasn’t turned into a proxy war :-)

[Nextrush]

DEBKA is hyping it for some reason.

Needless to say the Russian general did die in an attack and there have been “incidents” in recent weeks in the east of Syria.

[SunkenCiv]

Cutthroats, they have no complaint coming. And there is this:

• Putin Declares War In Syria Won and Only Mop-Up Operation Remains

[Roman_War_Criminal]

A week or so ago a massive attack by ISIS killed a Russian General and three Lt. Colonels (last one died of his injuries a few days ago from the same attack).

Of course, you really have to dig to find that last bit of news.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.814028