US Spending Millions on White Helmets While Preventing Aid to Rukban Camp: Damascus, Moscow

The Russian and Syrian coordination centers on returning refugees have censured the US over its latest decision to provide millions of dollars to the Western-backed White Helmets “ group, while preventing aid from reaching a refugee camp in southern Syria, Press TV reported.

The centers said in a joint statement released on Tuesday that the United States had pledged $5 million in donation to the Western-backed group, which has been cooperating with Takfiri terrorists and staging false-flag gas attacks, at the third Conference on Syria and the Region” in Brussels, Belgium, earlier this month.

 During the conference, the EU also pledged €8 billion and the US $400 million in so-called “aid to Syrian refugees”.

“This aid will not reach Syrian people; but will rather end up in the hands of White Helmets terrorists to fund their acts of fabricating incidents involving toxic chemicals,” the statement read.

It further noted that the participants in the Brussels conference, who claim to be supporting Syrians, are actually those who have imposed severe economic sanctions on them.

 “The money raised [during the event] will go only to displaced people in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, which seek to encourage them to remain there and hinder their return to Syria,” the statement pointed out, according to Press TV.

The centers also renewed their calls for the US to provide access to Rukban camp and ensure the safe exit of civilians stranded there. They also asked for the withdrawal of American troops from al-Tanf area.

H.M