The US state Department condemned the resumption of Russian air strikes in Syria
Moscow. 15 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — Washington condemns the renewed attacks of the Russian HQs in Syria, said Tuesday the state Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau.
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“We strongly condemn the resumption of air strikes conducted by the Russian Federation and the Syrian regime,” she said at a briefing in Washington. Trudeau called this kind of attack possible violation of international law.
“Recent data indicate that strikes by five hospitals and one mobile hospital. We believe that such actions are violations of international law,” she added, not specifying who exactly, according to the United States, caused these attacks.
On specifying question of the journalist on this topic, Trudeau explained that, speaking about violations of international law, had in mind not any specific cases, but “the totality of the efforts they (Russia and Syria — if) action” in recent weeks.
Earlier, Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with the leadership of the armed forces of the Russian Federation said that the Russian military on Tuesday began a large-scale action to strikes against terrorists in the provinces of Idlib and HOMS. In turn, the official representative of the defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday that reports by some media about the alleged bombing by aircraft of VC of Russia “for the third day of the hospital” in Aleppo “is an ordinary lie.”