WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- Russia is using Syrian refugees as a war weapon to weaken Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's top commander, told a U.S. Senate committee.
"These indiscriminate weapons used by both [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad, and the non-precision use of weapons by the Russian forces -- I can't find any other reason for them other than to cause refugees to be on the move and make them someone else's problem ...Together, Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve," Breedlove told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington Tuesday.