before the Security Council, Russia again accuses Ukraine of supporting Islamist rebels

For Russia, Ukraine would support the Islamist group leading the rebellion in northwest Syria. This is what the UN ambassador told the Security Council. However, just a week ago, a coalition of rebels orchestrated by the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, launched a dazzling offensive.

The Russian ambassador to the UN is sure: it is Ukrainian instructors and activists who are behind the training and equipment of the jihadists, led by the organization Hayat Tahrir al-Shamwho seized the northwest of the Syriareports our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten. All with the support of the West, which did not even have the courage to condemn these terrorist attacks in New York.

« Cooperation between Ukrainian and Syrian terrorists, driven by hatred against Russia and Syria, is carried out in particular in terms of recruiting fighters into the Ukrainian armed forces and to organize attacks against Russian and Syrian troops in Syria, explains Vassily Nebenzia, Russian ambassador to the UN. Employees of the Ukrainian intelligence services are arming fighters in Idlib, in particular using drones. Ukraine has now transformed into a breeding ground for international terrorism, as evidenced by the attacks on Russian soil, or in the Sahel or Syria.. »

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