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Kremlin says will press on with Syria operation, slams US

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia's air force would press ahead with its operations in Syria and dismissed a US statement on the conflict there as unhelpful and clumsy.

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Moscow to ground its planes over Syrian battle zones, including over Aleppo.

 

But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters on Thursday that the Russian air force would continue to support Syrian government troops and that what he called the "war on terror" would continue. Peskov urged Washington to deliver on a pledge to separate moderate Syrian opposition fighters from "terrorists" and called the latest US statement on Syria clumsy and unhelpful.

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.29.16, 14:53