The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has stated that the US and UK are planning terrorist attacks on Russian bases located inside Syria. According to the SVR, this is intended to prevent the country from stabilising.
Since the fall of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s government earlier this month, Washington and London have set goals to “maintain chaos in the Middle East” in order to assert their dominance in the region, where Russia stands as the only obstacle, the agency added in a statement on Saturday.
“The Russian presence on the Mediterranean coast of Syria serves as a significant deterrent against NATO’s ambitions of controlling the Syrian coasts along with its regional and international allies,” the SVR said.
“To remove this ‘obstacle,’ British intelligence services are developing plans to organise a series of terrorist attacks on Russian military facilities in Syria,” the SVR claimed.
It further added that the role of carrying out such attacks would be assigned to the fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), who were released from prisons following the regime change in the country.
“According to available information, representatives of the British intelligence service MI6 and America’s CIA recently tasked Syria-based IS commanders under their control with carrying out a series of attacks on Russian military bases. To carry out this dirty work, the terrorists were provided with attack UAVs,” the statement read.
To cover up their involvement in the planned Islamic State attacks on Russian bases, the US and UK military commands have instructed their air forces to continue carrying out strikes on IS positions in Syria, the SVR claimed.
During his year-end conference, the Russian president told reporters that there is an “overwhelming majority” within the group now controlling the situation in Syria that “has expressed an interest in retaining our military bases.”
He also mentioned that the Tartus and Khmeimim bases in Syria are currently being used to deliver humanitarian aid to the country.
The issue of maintaining a Russian military presence in Syria requires “careful consideration,” Putin stressed. “We must reflect on how our relations will evolve with the political forces currently in control and those that will govern this country in the future.”
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