09-07-2015, 03:51 PM
Mon Sep 7, 2015 | 10:02 AM EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) -
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced as "falsifications and fabrications" media reports it was changing its stance on the war in Syria or on the future of President Bashar al-Assad, whom it has shielded throughout the conflict.
"We don't appoint or dismiss foreign presidents, neither on our own or in cahoots with anyone else," the ministry said in a statement.
Ministry representatives on Monday also
declined immediate comment on a U.S. request
to Athens to close Greek airspace for Russian
supply flights to Syria.
Nor have Russian officials confirmed recent
media reports of Moscow increasing its military
assistance to Assad, saying only that it has
long been supplying Damascus with arms and
training to help it fight Islamist radicals, and will
continue to do so.
(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by
Andrew Osborn)
MOSCOW (Reuters) -
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced as "falsifications and fabrications" media reports it was changing its stance on the war in Syria or on the future of President Bashar al-Assad, whom it has shielded throughout the conflict.
"We don't appoint or dismiss foreign presidents, neither on our own or in cahoots with anyone else," the ministry said in a statement.
Ministry representatives on Monday also
declined immediate comment on a U.S. request
to Athens to close Greek airspace for Russian
supply flights to Syria.
Nor have Russian officials confirmed recent
media reports of Moscow increasing its military
assistance to Assad, saying only that it has
long been supplying Damascus with arms and
training to help it fight Islamist radicals, and will
continue to do so.
(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by
Andrew Osborn)