Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is accusing U.S. and British special services of plotting terrorist attacks against Russia’s military bases in Syria, reported TASS today.
“British intelligence agencies are working out plans to stage a series of terrorist attacks on the Russian military facilities in Syria. The plans envisage using militants of the ISIL terrorist group (the former name of the Islamic State terrorist group, IS, outlawed in Russia—TASS), recently released from prisons by the new authorities,” said the SVR press office in a Dec. 28 statement.
“In a broader sense, they are pursuing the goal of maintaining a state of chaos in the Middle East,” the press office added. “Washington and London presume that in such conditions they will be able to achieve more quickly their geopolitical goal of ensuring their long-term dominance in the region on the basis of a repulsive concept of the rules-based order. These intentions, however, are prevented by Russia’s military presence on the Mediterranean coast of Syria that has been a significant factor of regional stability until now,” it said.
