Russia denies withdrawing specialists from Venezuela

RUSSIA, (RT. COM), 4 JUNE, 2019 -Reports of a mass exodus of Russian military and technical specialists from Venezuela are not true, Russian officials say, adding that cooperation with Caracas is going on as usual and is set to expand.

In a Sunday story, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russian military and technical personnel had left Venezuela en masse, with the numbers diminishing from 1,000 Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro checks out a Russian-made SVD sniper rifle. (rt.com) to several dozen. The hardware corporation newspaper explained Rostec. the alleged exodus by On Monday, the a lack of contracts and corporation itself the fact that Moscow dismissed the report. supposedly realized “The figures provided that Caracas lacks any in the piece by the Wall funds to pay for the Street Journal have services of Russian been exaggerated tens hi-tech, military of times.