“How can we allow Russia to continue delivering weapons to the Assad regime when the opposition receives very few and is today massacred?” Hollande said. “How can we allow that there is now proof of chemical weapons — to which extent we don’t yet know, but they have been used — without there being unanimous condemnation from the international community and the G-8?”
Putin dismissed such sentiment in comments June 16 after a meeting with Cameron in London.
Both sides in the civil war have “blood on their hands,” Putin said. “Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria according to international law,” he said. “We breach nothing. And we call on our partners to act the same way.”
Assad warned in an interview with a German newspaper that Europe will “pay the price” for arming rebels in future terrorist attacks.
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