The West ignores the extent of what is happening in Mosul, said Lavrov
MOSCOW, 28 Mar — RIA Novosti. Western countries continue to gloss over the humanitarian situation in Iraq’s Mosul, said the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“We all remember how emotionally reacted to the Western countries and they control the media on the situation in Aleppo, Syria. However, they continue to “retouch” the humanitarian situation in Mosul, to gloss over the scale of what is happening. Meanwhile, the city ran almost four hundred thousand inhabitants who were in dire conditions,” he said in an interview with the newspaper “Arguments and facts”.
Commenting on the operation of the coalition led by the US in Mosul, Lavrov expressed the view that “the comparison of its action with the “surgery” is hardly appropriate, given the numerous victims among civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure.”
“However, in the Iraqi theater of war there was a radical change. Militarily the “Caliphate” here defeated”, he added.
Operation in the Western part of Mosul has been ongoing since February, with the participation of aviation of the international coalition headed by the USA. Iraqi media this week reported that victims of the bombing in West Mosul were at least 200 people.
The airstrikes cause the force of the international coalition headed by the USA in operation against the terrorist group ISIS (banned in Russia). The coalition has promised to investigate reports. Thus a press-the service of the coalition is not directly confirmed the information to the media about the death of civilians. The release of the press service noted that the “check messages” on the matter.