MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. US intelligence could not have spotted the transfer of Russian equipment, planes and other weapons to Syria, deputy head of Russia’s General Staff Gen. Col. Andrey Kartapolov said on Friday.
"We used a number of different technical, informational and tactical methods. You know the result. If [US intelligence] really saw it [transfer of Russian equipment to Syria] then [US President Barack] Obama would have hardly kept silent," Kartapolov said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.
He also said that "US did not understand the essence of our work and did not know what it was aimed at."
"I do not want to offend our American colleagues. They can keep what they thought," Kratapolov noted.
Russia's airstrikes in Syria
Russia launched an air operation against terrorists in Syria on September 30 at the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Russian Aerospace Force’s aviation grouping comprises over 50 aircraft and helicopters, including the newest Sukhoi Su-34 warplanes, Su-30SM fighter jets, modernized Su-24M bombers and Su-25SM attack aircraft, as well as the Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters. The Russian Navy has also delivered strikes from the Caspian Sea on the night to October 7 against militants’ objectives in Syria, using Kalibr long-range cruise missiles.
At the same time, Russia has no plans to participate in ground operations in Syria.
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