The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, said that the United States is going to buy a large batch of weapons for Venezuela, using a Ukrainian company for this purpose. She said this at a briefing on Friday, reports Russian Interfax.
According to her, Russia allegedly has evidence that US companies and their NATO allies are working on the issue of the acquisition of “a major arms and ammunition party in one of the Eastern European countries for their further transfer to the opposition forces of Venezuela.” Zakharova said that we are talking about samples and analogues of large-caliber machine guns, under-barrel and automatic grenade launchers, portable rockets, ammunition for small arms and artillery weapons for various purposes.
“Delivery of goods to Venezuela is scheduled to be carried out in early March by several parties through the territory of a neighboring country with the involvement of transport aircraft of the International Freight Forwarding Company,” said a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, stressing that the “Ukrainian trace” is being traced in this story. “In this absolutely unlucky history, the Ukrainian trace can be traced, in particular, as we understand, the state enterprise” Antonov “will be involved,” Zakharova said.
She added that the US administration, under the guise of delivering humanitarian aid, scheduled for February 23, is bringing special forces and equipment to the Venezuelan border.
