(Adds Kremlin comment) MOSCOW, March 30 (Reuters) - Russia is supplying ******* to Damascus
under contracts
signed since the
conflict in Syria
began in 2011, as well as
under earlier deals, President Bashar al-Assad said. Assad's comments, in an interview published by
Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Monday, appeared to contradict Moscow's line that any
Russian arms supplies to Damascus were agreed before the
conflict began. There are other agreements on
arms supplies and cooperation that were
signed during the crisis and are being carried out **w,"
Assad said.
Assad gave ** details of the ******* being supplied by Russia, the world's second-biggest
arms exporter,
since the start of the
conflict which has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions.
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