Russia: US attacks aim to draw regional powers into conflict
Russia said the US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria were carried out deliberately to inflame tensions in the region and draw the region's major powers into a new conflict.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that US airstrikes on two countries in West Asia once again demonstrated the aggressive nature of Washington's foreign policy. "It is clear that the airstrikes are deliberately designed to further inflame the conflict," Zakharova said. Washington, she said, "is deliberately trying to draw the biggest countries in the region into the conflict." Zakharova said that "Washington's airstrikes involving strategic bombers across Iraq and Syria once again demonstrated to the world the aggressive nature of American policy in the Middle East." "Recent events confirm that the United States does not and has never sought solutions to problems in the region." Meanwhile, the Russian delegation to the United Nations today through a communiqué announced Moscow's request for holding an urgent meeting of the Security Council regarding the American attacks in Syria and Iraq. In this regard, the statement of the Russian delegation to the United Nations states: Moscow has requested an urgent meeting of the Security Council regarding the US attacks in Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in Baghdad invited Iraq and Syria to seek an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council following the latest US attacks on the two countries.
