Putin chided US allies for supporting a missile strike on Syria
MOSCOW, 12 APR — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the NATO allies nod as the bobbleheads without analyzing anything that is going on, commenting on rocket a US strike on Syrian airbase.
The Russian President stressed that evidence of use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces and violations of international law is.
“What was the reaction of the NATO allies? All nod, as the bobbleheads without analyzing anything that is going on. Where is the evidence of Syrian army use chemical weapons? No. And violations of international law is. It is an obvious fact,” Putin said in an interview with TV channel “Mir 24”, commenting on a missile strike by US on Syria.
The Russian leader stressed that without the sanction of the UN Security Council applied to strike on a sovereign country, but despite this clear violation of international law, “all agree, accept and begin to nod and support”. According to him, so it was in 2003, when used absolutely far-fetched pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan.
“The country is destroyed, by the way, it was after this began the rapid growth of various terrorist organizations, movements, emerged of ISIS (the terrorist group “Islamic state” banned in Russia — ed.) is the same as other organizations. Know it all, understand it all, but again stepping on the same rake”, — concluded Putin.
Washington and its coalition allies have given the Syrian army responsibility for the alleged use of chemical weapons in Idlib province on April 4. USA, not showing any evidence of this and not listening to the call to conduct a thorough investigation before accusing the Damascus chemical attack, on the night of April 7 attacked a Syrian military base. While earlier, the foreign Minister of Syria Walid Muallem said that the Syrian government forces have never used and do not intend to use chemical weapons against civilians and against the terrorists.