Moscow: Armed Groups Possess US-made Weapons

MOSCOW,(ST)_ “We have reliable information that Syrian ”militants”- foreign-backed armed terrorist groups- have foreign portable anti-aircraft missile systems, including those made in the USA… it should be cleared up who delivered them,” General Nikolai Yegorovich Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia told journalists in Moscow,  adding that these weapons, equipment and ammunition  are transferred to these groups in different ways, including by air transportation. 

Commenting on directives given by President Barack Obama to provide the armed terrorist groups in Syria   with a shipment of anti-aircraft portable missiles, the Russian army official added: “The Americans have abandoned such directives and said they did not provide the Syrian opposition with any kind of weapons.”

Earlier, Alexander Lukashevich, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson asserted that the arming the terrorist groups in Syria with a man-portable air defense systems, (MANPADS) was a ”most dangerous act,”

T. Fateh