US Marines in Syria. File photoUN, Jan 28 Moscow demands the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces illegally stationed there from Syria, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the United Nations, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
" We demand the immediate withdrawal from Syria of all foreign forces present there illegally. The United States is clearly not coping with the fight against terrorism even on a local, not to mention global, scale. The outing of ISIS* with an attack on a prison in the city of Khasaka clearly demonstrates this", said Polyansky.
Meanwhile, the diplomat stressed, Russia does not stop working to combat terrorism in Syria together with the country's authorities. «Syrian military forces with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, they continue to search for and eliminate ISIS in Syria. This work will be continued,» he concluded. under the control of the Kurds, terrorists were able to escape from it. Later, he clarified that four terrorist attacks were recorded in the provinces of Raqqa and Al-Hasakah in the north-east of Syria not controlled by Damascus, as a result of which at least six people were killed. *A terrorist organization banned in Russia.
The Syrian prosecutor's office called the presence of US forces in the country an occupation