Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of smuggling an estimated 30 million dollars of oil a month from Syria's fields abroad.
Zacharova said the United States was circumventing the sanctions it had issued itself, accusing Washington of carrying out what it called criminal activity in eastern Syria under the pretext of fighting Islamic State.
She added that the international community cannot wonder when a state that has long spoken of democratic and civilized values smuggles oil from eastern Syria, a sovereign state, of course called criminal activity, under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State, which was eliminated in March. Alliance.