Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country will help the Syrian government in the event of a foreign military intervention.
Putin made the remarks on Friday at a news conference on the final day of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg.
The Russian president, however, did not elaborate on how Moscow would help Damascus.
It was not clear if Moscow planned to defend Syria and increase military assistance.
He added that Washington and Moscow have not bridged their differences over the issue of possible military action in Syria, noting that any such attack is considered counter-productive and will only further destabilize the region."Will we help Syria? We will. We are helping them now. We supply weapons, we cooperate in the economic sphere, and I hope we will cooperate more in the humanitarian sphere ... to provide help for those people - civilians - who are in a difficult situation today," Putin said.
Putin noted that allegations of chemical weapons use by the Syrian army were fabricated by foreign-backed militants in a bid to pave the way for an external military intervention.
US President Barack Obama used the meeting to push for his strike plan against Syria, despite strong opposition from China, Russia and many other countries.
Washington's war rhetoric against Syria intensified after militants operating in the country claimed that the Syrian army had carried out a deadly chemical attack on the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, which killed hundreds of Syrians.
Damascus has repeatedly said the deadly attack was a false-flag operation carried out by the Takfiri groups in a bid to draw in foreign military intervention.
Russia: chemical projectile launched in Khan al-Assal does not belong to Syrian Army [Link]
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad - "Victims kidnapped from Lattakia, ppl of Ghouta village say" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fE41Nn316g&feature=youtube_gdata_player [Link]
"“On 21st of August, I tell you what the Syrian people say, they (al-Qaeda-linked terrorists) kidnap children and men from the villages of Latakia and they brought them here (in Damascus), put them in one place and used chemical weapons against them… that’s the story that the villagers in these villages know, but why don’t you leave it to the UN commission?” she said.
“The same people who were on the London Tube and who killed British people, the same people who on 9/11 in New York killed American people, they are the same people in Mali, the same people in Libya, the same people in Iraq, the same people in Syria,” Shaaban stated." [...]
Footage of chemical attack in Syria is fraud [Link]
The only people who are not acting in this graphic video are the dead children. [Link]
Syrian “gas rockets” appear homemade and incapable of flying 5-10 miles to target. [Link]
Iran - "We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago" [Link]
Putin: Syria chemical attack is ‘rebels' provocation in hope of intervention’ [Link]
US Attacking Syria to Ensure Israel is Natural Gas Export Leader [Link]
AIPAC to go all-out on Syria [Link]
[bloodthirsty pathological liar's resorting to myths to get israhell's war going.]
"As a Jew," Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz Invokes Holocaust In Making Case For Bombing Syria [Link]
Have you heard about Holocaust and Hitler's Syria !!?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SoOcJiYUak
Mearsheimer Says Hitler Never Used Chemical Weapons [Link]
Jewish groups back Obama on Syria, but downplay Israel angle [Link]