Moscow. August 24. INTERFAX - The US military, who attacked facilities in Syria and explained this as self-defense purposes, are there illegally, said Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
"If we call a spade a spade, then the US military illegally located on the territory of a sovereign state attacked the facilities of this state, presumably connected with the military of another state legally located here. And all this is done to protect US citizens who are in Syria illegally," Kosachev told Interfax.
So he commented on the message of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces that the US Air Force, on the instructions of President Joe Biden, struck infrastructure facilities in Syria, which allegedly belong to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The command stated that the US president had instructed the strikes "to protect American personnel from attacks by pro-Iranian groups."
In this regard, Kosachev noted that "the US military and specialists support anti-government militants in Syria, as well as encourage the actual theft of Syrian oil."
