Moscow-Sana
Russia's Deputy Representative to the United Nations, Gennady Kuzmin, called for an investigation into the crimes of the US forces in the city of Raqqa, which caused the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians through their barbaric bombing.
"We have not forgotten how the US military razed Raqqa to the ground during the barbaric military campaign they fought with their forces," TASS news agency quoted Kuzmin as saying today during a session of the United Nations General Assembly on human rights in Syria, adding that "the crimes that are unprecedented in their cruelty must be investigated." perpetrated by the American military.
Kuzmin pointed out that "as a result of the large-scale military operation in which the United States participated and used aircraft and armored vehicles, tens of thousands of Syrian civilians, including children, were killed."
It is noteworthy that since its establishment by Washington in August 2014, outside the framework of the United Nations, the international coalition aircraft have attacked hundreds of times on villages, cities and towns in Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, Hasaka and its countryside, which led to the death of thousands of civilians, mostly children and women, in addition to the destruction of bridges on the Euphrates River. homes, property, infrastructure and vital facilities.