Russian Defense Ministry Accuses Pentagon of Deceiving International Public Opinion

After President Trump declared victory over IS in Syria, the Pentagon's desire to stay in the country until the victory over terrorism is nothing more than a deception of the international community - Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov commented.

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"The Pentagon is deliberately deceiving the international community and American public opinion, including its supreme commander-in-chief, because there no longer exists any basis, not even formal reasons, for the presence of the US military in Syria," Konashenkov said.

The Pentagon's statement on Russia's withdrawal from Syria shows that the US does not know the real situation on the ground, Konashenkov said.

Earlier, Pentagon spokesman Adrian Rankin Galloway said that "the US military has not recorded a significant reduction in Russian troop numbers in Syria."

"The statements of Pentagon representatives about Russia's withdrawal or non-withdrawal of troops from Syria reveal not only a clumsy cover-up of the desire for us not to be there, but also the United States' lack of understanding of the real situation on the ground," Konashenkov said.

"If flights from Syria by the Russian Air Force, military doctors, engineers and military police, transporting military equipment to Russian ports are not shown on American TV channels, then this is the Pentagon's problem. To solve this problem, the US military just needs to switch to Russian or European TV channels," he added.

According to Sputnik