TEHRAN, Mar 26 -A senior Venezuelan official has confirmed that two Russian planes have landed in the country after authorization by President Nicolas Maduro.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The vice president of Venezuela’s Socialist Party, Diosdado Cabello, said the planes were in Venezuela “because they were authorized by the only government that there is in Venezuela, and it’s called the government of [President] Nicolas Maduro.”
Cabello made the remarks in a speech broadcast on state television on Monday, without providing further details.
His emphasis on the legitimate government in Venezuela was because an opposition figure, Juan Guaido, has declared himself “interim president” of the country and has been attempting to shore up international support for a “government” of his own.
Sputnik had earlier quoted a diplomatic source in Caracas as telling the Russian new agency that a group of Russian military personnel had arrived in Venezuela for “bilateral consultations” related to “contracts... on military and technical cooperation.”
An independent Venezuela journalist, Javier Mayorca, had also written in a Twitter message that a Russian air force Antonov-124 cargo plane and a smaller jet, apparently an Ilyushin Il-62, had landed in the country on Saturday.
Mayorca claimed the aircraft brought around 100 Russian soldiers led by General Vasily Tonkoshkurov, the head of the Mobilization Directorate of Russia’s armed forces, and disembarked 35 tons of equipment.
Social media, nonetheless, picked-up the information along with a picture (seen below) purportedly showing a Russian-flagged aircraft and Russian troops at a Caracas airport.
Source: Press TV
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