Russia sends warship to Syria in support of Assad as UN claims his soldiers have killed 256 children.
Russia is sending warships to Syria in an apparent show of strength in support of President Bashar al-Assad. The move to defend Moscow’s interests in the strife-torn country came as a United Nations report revealed horrifying new details of children being tortured to death by Syrian government thugs. Last night, the disturbing claims piled more international pressure on Assad to end the bloodshed that is believed to have claimed 3,500 lives. Russia’s flotilla of warships will give pause to Western leaders pushing for the kind of military intervention in Syria that ultimately drove Muammar Gaddafi from power in Libya. Russia, which has a major naval base in Syria and whose weapons trade with Damascus is worth millions of pounds a year, joined China last month to veto a Western-backed UN Security Council resolution condemning Assad’s government. Russia is planning to send its flagship aircraft carrier, the ‘Admiral Kuznetsov’ along with a patrol ship, an anti-submarine craft and oth