Moscow — Russia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that US support of Iraqi efforts to recapture Mosul from jihadists was equivalent to Moscow’s backing of a Syrian government offensive to seize rebel-held eastern Aleppo. "They are preparing an operation to liberate Mosul from terrorists," Russian news agencies quoted Sergei Lavrov as saying. "And in Aleppo, the city needs to be freed from terrorists. With the exact same plea as we made in Aleppo, the American coalition is appealing to residents in Mosul, calling on them to leave. Just like in Aleppo, humanitarian corridors have been set up." Lavrov said that his American counterpart John Kerry had assured him that the situation in Mosul was "completely different" from that in Aleppo. "In Mosul we planned in advance, while in Aleppo, you didn’t plan and civilians are suffering," Kerry said, according to Lavrov. The West has accused Moscow of perpetrating potential war crimes in Aleppo through indiscriminate bombing in support of a S...
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