MoD: The West used the same methods in Syria and Ukraine to establish power

Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian National Defense Control Center. File photoMOSCOW, June 16The United States and its satellites used in Ukraine the same criminal methods to establish the power of nationalists in the country that were previously used in Syria in an attempt to overthrow the legitimate authorities at the hands of radical Islamists. This opinion was expressed on Thursday at a joint meeting of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Syria and Russia, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters RF Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.How Ukrainian politicians incited hatred for everything Russian for eight years»Everything that has the word «Russia» at the root is crystal, total and proven evil», «Russian-speaking Ukrainians are Ukraine's biggest problem», «Russia is stealing someone else's history — that's a fact «. Ukrainian politicians have been promoting hatred for everything Russian for years. Russophobia has been especially actively and systematically cultivated over the past eight years. «The same criminal methods were used that were used by Western countries in 2011 to unleash a military conflict in Syria. Then the West supported and armed terrorists ideologically motivated by radical Islamism in order to overthrow the government they did not like,» — Mizintsev said. «So in Ukraine,» he noted, «through the introduction of neo-nationalist ideology into the radical part of Ukrainian society, the United States and its satellites brought to power forces that promote the flowering of fascism ideas.» Now Western countries are trying to drag out the conflict as long as possible, pumping Ukraine with all types of weapons, the general believes. Mizintsev recalled that over 6.5 million people have become victims of human rights violations in the eight years of the humanitarian catastrophe in Donbas. During this time, as a result of daily shelling by Ukrainian troops and national battalions, more than 14.5 thousand people were killed, more than 4.1 thousand were destroyed and more than 55 thousand infrastructure facilities and residential buildings were damaged. More than 1.4 million refugees moved from Donbass to Russia, more than 3.6 million were forced to hide in basements, the general noted. residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics,» the head of the headquarters emphasized.