Source:
RT News
Turkey
has allowed its observation posts, established under a 2018 deal with Moscow,
to virtually merge with terrorist bases in Idlib, Russia’s Defense Ministry
said, amid a Turkish assault against advancing Syrian forces.
“The
fortified areas of the terrorists have merged with the Turkish observation
posts deployed under the 2018 Sochi agreement,” Russian Defense Ministry
spokesman Major General Igor Konashenko, said early on Wednesday.
“Attacks
and mass artillery fire on neighboring civilian settlements and the Russian
airbase at Khmeimim turned from sporadic to daily.”
Europe
and the United States have consistently ignored Turkey’s failure to abide by
the 2018 deal, the spokesman went on, stating that neither is “interested in
the actual humanitarian situation inside and around Idlib.”
All
of Russia's official requests to the UN and Western countries – who delivered
humanitarian aid across the Turkish border and all of it went not to refugees,
but to terrorists – remained unanswered. All we heard were the lamentations
about the need to ‘preserve the Sochi agreements at all costs.’
Despite
repeated attacks on civilians and clear links to known terrorist groups,
Western media have transformed Idlib’s armed factions into so-called
'moderates,' the spokesman said.
“Where
among these supposedly ‘opposition’ fighters in the Turkish-controlled zone was
[Abu Mohammad] al-Julani – the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, a terrorist group
officially recognized by the UN – together with his nearly 20,000 cutthroats?”
he asked.
At
a click of the finger, all of Idlib’s terrorists became supposedly the
‘representatives of the moderate opposition’ in the Western media. However, it
is not clear how the ISIS chief al-Baghdadi was recently ‘pinpointed’ and
killed, according to the US, amid all these ‘moderates.’
Ankara’s
ongoing attacks on the Syrian Army as it advances on the terrorist groups
amounts to a “violation of international law,” and yet has gone utterly
“unnoticed by anyone in the West,” Konashenkov said, despite the latter’s
professed commitment to a ‘rules-based order.’
The
remarks come amid hostilities between Turkey and Syria in Idlib, which
escalated last month. Turkey sent thousands of troops across the Syrian border
in an effort to push Syrian government forces out of the province.
Idlib
is the last large stronghold of anti-government armed groups in Syria. Turkey
was supposed to use the influence it has on some of the groups to suppress
jihadists, who are determined to continue fighting, and ensure a lasting
ceasefire. In practice, attacks in Idlib continued, and last year Damascus
forces went on the offensive, capturing large swathes of land in the south of
the province.
Damascus
has long accused Turkey of foul play, saying Ankara was fueling violence
against Syrian soldiers and civilians rather than curbing it.
SYRIA
2020
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