— Dec 1, 2015 Russia’s
unyielding resolve to send down advanced weapons to Syria as a way of
beefing up support for President Bashir Al-Assad and tacitly retaliating
the recent gun down of its war plane by Turkish army has begun to worry
America and the NATO.
Officials of NATO have expressed concerns
that the caliber of weaponry being deployed by Vladimir Putin’s army to
the war-torn Syria was beyond what was really needed to fight the
Islamic State group.
NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe,
General Philip Breedlove, said the high caliber munitions being deployed
by Putin were not the ones needed to fight the Islamic States but to
“protect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad”.
“We see some very
sophisticated air defenses going into these airfields. We see some very
sophisticated air-to-air aircraft going into these airfields,” Breedlove
quoted by AFP to have informed an audience at the German Marshall Fund
in Washington.
“I have not seen (the Islamic State) flying any airplanes that require sophisticated air-to-air capabilities.”
Intelligence
sourced by the international media from the Pentagon indicated that
Putin’s Russia had so far sent “at least 500 troops, along with fighter
jets, artillery units, tanks and other military hardware to an airbase
in the Latakia region on Syria’s Mediterranean coast”.
Weapons like SA15 and SA22 surface-to-air missile defence systems, were said to have been used to take down enemy planes.
“I
have not seen ISIL flying any airplanes that require SA15s or SA22s,”
he said, using an alternative acronym for the IS group”, said Breedlove.
American
President, Barak Obama, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin had once fought
over the Syrian crisis in Syria even as the duo had used their
respective UN speeches on Monday, to point accusing finger at one
another as responsible for worsening the killings in Syria.
Though
Putin and Obama were billed to meet at the sidelines even of the
ongoing UN General Assembly, NATO felt Putin was deploying military
hardware to Syria as a way of creating a stonewall to protect him
against pressure to step down.
NATO insisted that Russia was
aiding Syria through what it said was referred to as “Anti-Access
Area-Denial (A2AD) exclusion zone”.
Breedlove who heads the
28-member military alliance said “it is one of the things we are
beginning to watch (them) develop in the northeast Mediterranean as we
see these very capable air defence capabilities beginning to show up in
Syria,” Breedlove said.
“We are a little worried about another A2AD bubble being created in the eastern Mediterranean.”
He
recalled: “Russia already had created such a zone in the Black Sea,
thanks to missile batteries sent to Crimea after its annexation by
Russian forces”. He added that the Russians forces are also using the
Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to create a bubble over the Baltic, he
said.
He sees the Russian move as a tacit way of wanting to be
seen as an equal on the world stage, a great power on the world stage”,
adding that “Moscow “wants to maintain warm water ports and airfield
capabilities in the eastern Mediterranean and they saw that possibly
being challenged on the ground by those opposing the Assad regime”.
Russia
has not been gaining international solidarity in it quest to ‘fight’
the ISIL and protect Syria’s President Bashir Al-Asad: Just last week
one of its fighter jets was gunned down at Syria-Turkey border by the
troops of the Turkish army over alleged violation of its airspace.
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