COLD WAR REDUX: Russia Defends Helicopter Sales To Syria, Accuses U.S. Of Arming Rebels
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM EST
Rhetoric about Russian weapons transfers so Syria is stirring up, following U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s announcement that Moscow is sending in attack helicopters that ”will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.”
Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is defending his country’s weapons sales to Syria and denies that the transfers have anything to do with helping the Syrian government shut down an increasingly violent civil uprising, reports Reuters.
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