USA training al-Qaeda, ISIS terrorists to attack Russia, claims country's spy agency SVR

Alleging a new instance of clandestine warfare, Russia has accused the United States of America of training Islamist terrorists to attack the European country.

Russia's foreign spy service SVR reportedly said that the US had recruited around 60 terrorists from the ranks of ISIS and al-Qaeda. The recruits are now being trained at an American base in Syria, Moscow said according to a Reuters report.

The USA will use the Islamist terrorists to attack diplomats, civil servants, law enforcement officers and personnel of the armed forces, SVR has claimed.

Meanwhile, Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country, with Ukrainian officials saying that Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.

One person was killed and one more was wounded on Sunday morning by the shelling of Nikopol, a city in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Gov. Serhii Lysak reported.

The shelling damaged four residential buildings, a vocational school and a water treatment facility.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, one person was wounded after three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure facilities overnight, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.

The Russian military said they hit armored vehicle assembly workshops at the Malyshev machinery plant in the city.

(With agency inputs)

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