September 30, 2017 - Fort Russ News - Paul Antonopoulos
The Russian Defense Ministry regards efforts applied by the UK against the Islamic State (IS, a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) as "insignificant," Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Friday that the United Kingdom's role in defeating ISIS was "insignificant".
This came in response to statements made by UK Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon who inflated his country's role in defeating ISIS by stating that "Britain has made a major contribution to the campaign that has crippled Daesh since 2014, forcing this miserable cult from the gates of Baghdad to the brink of defeat in Raqqa."
"While the Syrian forces, supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces, were fighting to defeat the ISIS in Syria, it suddenly emerged that during all these years UK Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon has been helping us destroy terrorists behind our backs," Konashenkov stated.
He then went onto question what Britain was doing when "ISIS swallowed up almost one-third of Iraq and all of Syria in mid-2015?"
"The British secretary of state for defense reported himself that the Royal Air Force has carried about 1,500 strikes on ISIS in Iraq and Syria since 2014. At the same time, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried more than 99,000 precision strikes confirmed by data recorders over terrorists in Syria alone, which led to a strategic upset in the fight against the ISIS," the spokesman highlighted.
"If Britain’s contribution to the fight against the ISIS may be called ‘inestimable,’ it is not because of the wide range of efforts, but because of their insignificance," Konashenkov concluded.
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