The militants of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (banned in Russia) took advantage of the situation with the spread of coronavirus to intensify its actions in the North-East of Syria, said the official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
“We are stating that deteriorating conditions in uncontrolled government areas in the North-East of Syria. The epidemic of coronavirus decided to take advantage of the “ISIS”. They have stepped up their attacks”, – reports TASS the words.
As the diplomat said, the situation with the deterioration of the situation COVID-19 U.S. does not care about the civilian population, writes RIA “Novosti”.
“We should also note that deteriorating conditions in uncontrolled government areas in the North-East of Syria, an epidemic of coronavirus was decided to use ISIS, they have stepped up their attacks, and only in the period from 10 to 15 may, terrorists carried out more than 20 attacks against Kurdish forces in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, raqqa, in a result, more than 20 people were killed, about 40 wounded,” – said Zakharov.
In addition, the office drew attention to alarming reports about the escape of seven fighters from the prison at the camp for internally displaced persons, al-Haul.
“All these facts once again confirm that the occupying Sevrage United States of America and its allies do not care about the civilian population, the maintenance of security and other really important issues,” – said the representative of the foreign Ministry.
Earlier, the commander of the division fighters have sided with Syrian government forces Abu Hamzi reported that the US military base of al-TANF have partnered with ISIS.
We will remind, the Director of the Stockholm Institute for peace research (SIPRI) Dan Smith stated that the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern and Western Africa will be exacerbated by the pandemic coronavirus infection.
