The director of the foreign ministry's Latin American department said Russian specialists would be sent to Venezuela if requested.
A Russian foreign ministry official has said Moscow will consider sending more troops to support embattled President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela if the situation requires it, as the oil-rich nation remains mired in political turmoil., who the U.S.- and Europe-backed opposition claim is an illegitimate dictator. In March, two Russian military transport planes arrived in Caracas with more than 100 troops aboard, reportedly deployed to repair and help maintain Venezuelan military equipment.
"This is an absolutely technical issue related to implementing certain contracts on a particular volume of work," the diplomat added. He also said any new deployments may be simple troop rotations."Some of them will leave and the others will come," he told reporters. At the time, the U.S. State Department called the deployment a"reckless escalation" of the tense situation in the country. Since then, the opposition—led by self-declared Interim President Juan Guaido—have lost momentum, having failed to win the support of the country's powerful military establishment., leaving the crisis-stricken nation caught between Maduro and the opposition-led National Assembly.
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