While rebel and jihadist groups have seized Aleppo and are “at the gates” of Hama, the country's fourth city, Russia points the finger at Ukraine and its intelligence services, which it accuses of militarily supporting the rebellion. An ally of Bashar al-Assad, Russia has itself intervened militarily in Syria for almost 10 years.
The Russian ambassador to the UN on Tuesday (December 3) accused Ukraine of militarily supporting fighters from the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who are leading an offensive against Syrian forces in north-west Syria.
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Ukraine 'motivated by hatred against Russia and Syria'
“We want to draw particular attention to the identifiable traces pointing to the main Ukrainian intelligence directorate, the GUR, in the organization of hostilities and in the supply of weapons to fighters in north-west Syria,” he said. declared Vasily Nebenzia during a Security Council meeting on the escalation of hostilities in Syria.
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“We are referring to the identification in the province of Ukrainian military instructors… who were training HTS fighters in combat operations,” he added. “The HTS fighters not only do not hide the fact that they are supported by Ukraine, but they flaunt it,” he said, accusing Ukraine of having provided them with drones in particular.
“Cooperation between Ukrainian and Syrian terrorists motivated by hatred against Syria and Russia is ongoing, for the recruitment of fighters into the Ukrainian armed forces and to organize attacks against Russian and Syrian troops in Syria,” added the ambassador.
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A coalition of rebels dominated by the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, launched a dazzling offensive in north-west Syria on November 27, seizing dozens of localities and a large part of Aleppo, the country's second city, before continuing its progression towards the south. Russia, which has intervened militarily in Syria since 2015, is one of the main allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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