Russian Troops in Syria
This week there were reports that Russian troops had been sent to Syria in order to assist the Syrian government with what they are calling a terrorist insurgency. When I first saw these reports my attention was immediately peaked, and I couldn’t believe that Russia had actually escalated the situation by sending troops. As I looked around the internet it seems that the news agencies overreacted to a report of a Russian tanker docking in Tartus, Syria with a security force on board.
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| Iman oil tanker |
He is a quote from Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, about the situation:
“As the defense ministry said, it is an oil tanker. We don’t have any warships in the Syrian regional waters. There are no Russian special forces aboard the oil tanker…but we should be aware that aboard these kinds of tankers, there is always a force to protect it against any attack. Ships of the Black Sea fleet are operating within the framework of an international plan for anti-piracy,” Lavrov said.
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