Ct1Mahani | SitiWanMahani - Rusia telah mengutuk serangan ke atas kedutaan Damsyik, dan berkata ia menganggap ini satu “tindakan keganasan”. Satu mortar melanda sebatian diplomatik Rusia misi pada hari Khamis, dan satu lagi berdekatan, membunuh seorang tempatan dan mencederakan 9.
Serangan itu berlaku pada kira-kira 1300 GMT.
“Salah saya meletup di wilayah perwakilan diplomatik, satu lagi meletup berhampiran pagar luar kedutaan,” Kementerian Luar Rusia berkata dalam satu kenyataan, mengulas mengenai kejadian itu.
Sebatian misi diplomatik telah mengalami kerosakan kecil dan tiada Rusia telah cedera dalam serangan itu, Kementerian Luar mengesahkan. Walau bagaimanapun, 9 orang Syria termasuk pengawal keselamatan kedutaan telah cedera dan seorang lelaki terbunuh.
Kementerian Luar Rusia menegaskan bahawa “mortar serangan oleh militant” di baha-gian tengah Damsyik, termasuk serangan di wilayah Kedutaan Rusia, telah menjadi lebih kerap baru-baru ini.
“[Kami] melayan mereka sebagai tindakan keganasan, pengganas-pengganas dan mereka yang mendorong dan mengarahkan mereka mesti dihukum,” kata akhbar- pejabat FM dalam kenyataan itu. Amerika Syarikat juga telah mengutuk serangan di Damsyik dan menyatakan “kebimbangan untuk mereka yang terbunuh dan kecederaan dalam kejadian itu.”
“Kami mengutuk apa-apa serangan terhadap individu atau kemudahan dilindungi oleh undang-undang antarabangsa. Amerika Syarikat terus untuk menekankan bahawa mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk kekejaman ke atas semua pihak mesti dipertanggung-jawabkan,” kata Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat dalam satu kenyataan Khamis.
Pada bulan-bulan baru-baru ini perang saudara yang berterusan di Syria, pemberontak telah melancarkan beberapa peluru mortar ke dalam daerah Mazraa kelas atasan di Damsyik, yang menempatkan banyak kedutaan dan pegawai-pegawai kanan Syria. Terda-hulu pada bulan September, yang mortar melanda kompaun kedutaan Rusia, mencede-rakan 3 orang.
Sepanjang hampir tiga3 tahun konflik ketenteraan di Syria, Kedutaan Rusia kekal paling teruk rosak pada bulan Februari 2013, apabila sebuah bom kereta meletup berhampiran, membunuh 50 orang di lebuh raya Damsyik. Ketika itu tidak ada orang yang cedera di kedutaan, tetapi letupan yang meniup tingkap di bangunan.
RUSSIA: Shelling Of Damascus Embassy that killed 1,
injured 9 is ‘terrorism’ . . .
Russia has condemned an attack on its Damascus embassy, saying it considers this an “act of terrorism”. A mortar shell hit Russia’s diplomatic mission compound on Thursday, and another nearby, killing one local and injuring nine.
The attack occurred at about 1300 GMT.
“One mine exploded on the territory of the diplomatic mission, another exploded near the fence outside the embassy," Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, commenting on the incident.
The diplomatic mission compound has sustained minor damage and no Russians have been injured in the attack, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. However, nine Syrians including embassy security guards, have been wounded and one man was killed.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that “mortar attacks by militants” in the central part of Damascus, including attacks on the territory of Russia’s Embassy, have become more frequent recently.
“[We] treat them as acts of terrorism, the perpetrators and those who encourage and direct them must be punished,” the FM’s press-office said in the statement. The United States has also condemned the attack in Damascus and expressed “concern for those killed and injured in the incident.”
“We condemn any attack against individuals or facilities protected by international law. The United States continues to emphasize that those responsible for atrocities on all sides must be held accountable,” the US State Department said in a statement Thursday.
In the recent months of the ongoing civil war in Syria, rebels have launched a number of mortar shells into the upscale Mazraa district of Damascus, which houses many embassies and senior Syrian officials. Earlier in September, a mortar shell hit the Russian embassy compound, injuring three people.
During the nearly three-year military conflict in Syria, the Russian embassy sustained its worst damaged in February 2013, when a car bomb exploded nearby, killing 50 people on the Damascus highway. Back then no one was injured at the embassy, but the blast blew out windows in the building.
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