‘The masks are off’: Moscow says ‘occupier’ US openly sided with terrorists with new sanctions

Members of Jaish al-Islam in the town of Soussian in Aleppo countryside, Syria September 23, 2018. REUTERS Khalil Ashawi

By blacklisting a shipping company and five vessels for supplying the Russian military battling terrorists in Syria with fuel, the US has come out as a sponsor of militants there, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

Three Russian individuals, five vessels and a shipping company were sanctioned by Washington for their alleged role in “a sanctions evasion scheme to facilitate the delivery of jet fuel to Russian forces operating in Syria,” the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) reported Thursday.

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