The Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the United States is preparing for new provocations with chemical weapons to discredit the Syrian leadership on the background of the normalization of Arab-Syrian relations. It was reported that Naryshkin’s statement was given in the press office of the Foreign Intelligence Service. TASS.
According to him, the administration of US President Joe Biden is doing everything in its power to disrupt the normalization of Arab-Syrian relations and discredit the Syrian leadership. The director of the Foreign Intelligence Agency pointed out that Washington has prepared several provocations, including the “use of chemical toxic substances”, to achieve these goals.
“According to data available in the Foreign Intelligence Agency, the methodology of its use was applied in May 2023 in the Syrian province of Idlib by militants of the CIA-controlled local wing of Al Qaeda (the organization is banned in Russia) – extremists from the Hurraseddin group and the Turkestan Islamic Party ” (The organization is banned in Russia),” Naryshkin was quoted by the press office of the service.
At the same time, it was recorded that 100 civilians were poisoned.
At the same time, Naryshkin stressed that the Americans “have not forgotten their protection from ISIS in Southern Syria (the organization is banned in Russia)”.
“We were given missiles with warheads filled with toxic substances,” he said.
According to the Foreign Intelligence Service, they were located near the settlements of Hawiya and Zavria, not far from the US Armed Forces base Al-Tanf.
On May 19, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev work they are already using them for chemical and biological weapons, including even on Ukrainian soil.
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