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What you did in Iraq & Libya is the real barbarism – Russian FM spox rebukes US envoy to UN

Published time: 26 Sep, 2016 15:32

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power ( © Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters) and Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova( © Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik)

The US envoy to the UN, who recently called Russia’s actions in Syria “barbarism,” is hypocritical, because nothing in modern history is more barbaric than what the US has done in Iraq and Libya, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a fiery rebuke.

The American envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, blasted Russia on Sunday at a Security Council meeting, accusing Moscow of civilian deaths in Aleppo in the wake of the collapse of the ceasefire negotiated by the US and Russia.

“What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism,” the US diplomat said in reference to the renewed hostilities in Syria.

She delivered an emotional speech, accusing Russia and Syria of attacks on aid workers, civilian infrastructure and residential areas, while omitting the fact that armed groups – including Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front – are in control of large parts of Aleppo and are using its population as human shields.
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