Moscow will not pay attention to concerns from Washington regarding the humanitarian implications of a sale of fighter jets to Myanmar, the Kremlin said on Friday.
“Russia has invariably observed the norms, rules and principles of international law [in the field of military-technical cooperation] and it will continue doing so in the future,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency as saying.
“It goes without saying that for this reason we cannot pay attention to such accusations” by the United States over supplies of fighter jets to Myanmar.”
After the announcement last week that Russia would provide six Sukhoi-30 jets to Myanmar, US Department of State spokeswoman Heather Nauert told TASS that Russia should display solidarity with other countries and provide humanitarian assistance to Myanmar. Weapons supplies to the country, she said, might aggravate the situation there.
The deal comes as Myanmar’s military has shifted in recent years from a focus on ground warfare to aerial bombardments as part of its efforts to combat ethnic insurgent groups, particularly in Kachin state in the country’s north.
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin said the Sukhoi jets “will become the main combat plane of Myanmar’s air force crucial for protecting the country’s territorial integrity and for countering terrorist threats.”
“To see a connection between this aim and the threat of ‘even greater suffering’ of the civilian population can only be the very ‘rich’ imagination of our colleagues from the State Department,” the Russian Foreign Ministry was quoted by Reuters as saying in a statement on Friday.
That’s true
I agree with Russia. Because this area doesn’t deserve to be like Syria.
It’s just plain geopolitical hypocrisy, the USA and Britain sells planes, tanks , missiles and other munitions and armament to Saudi Arabia who are pummeling Yemen, and they don’t care that innocent civilians including children, are being killed daily, not to mention the cathrostropic destruction of infrastructure. But then Saudi Arabia are their ally so………
so people see bullshit in Muzies’ brain.
Su 30 as it seems wiill be introduced with help n maintenance n pilot training from india
Bambang Solihin Russians should provide attack helicopters to Myanmar instead of sukhoi if fighting rebels is the main reason .
The sufferer are not Christian so that they will have independent like e.timid or a. Sudan how funny
Rawshan Iajdani ICC is nothing but a copromise court among supper power.
SU-30 is to protect the generals from ICC trial for their role in ethnic cleansing.
Agre with. Or maybe Myanmar should get better SU 25 groundattack jet to fight the rebells.
The Su 30 is primarily an air superiority fighter. If Myanmar intended to use it for the rebels then they would have opted for a Super Tucano which is better suited for the job and substantially cheaper.