The Kremlin spoke about the presence of Russian mercenaries in Venezuela: "Fear has big eyes"

The Kremlin quoted a Russian proverb about presumed presence of 400 mercenaries from that country to Venezuela in support of the Chavez government. "Fear has big eyes", said the spokesman of the administration Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, who rejected this version.

Russia's official response was after several media outlets from this country and from other parts of the world spoke of the presence of a group of fighters to support the government of President Chavez, Nicolás Maduro, in front of the worsening of the political crisis in this country. it's going through an economic debacle.

"Fear has big eyes," said Peskov in reference to a Russian proverb, speaking of the program. Moscow Putin. Kremlin. "Of course not," said the Kremlin spokesman before the consultation. "This information belongs entirely to the field of conspiracy theories. In Venezuela, it's everywhere Maduro escorts, "he said.

On Friday, a person who defined himself as a Cossack leader said that members of a recently returned private Russian military enterprise from Gabon would form an "emergency" group of "400 people" that they would send to then to Caracas via Cuba. "The relatives (of these soldiers) have contacted me to talk about their fate to foreign media," said Yevgeny Chabaev on the Russian social network Vkontakte.

Chabaev has been contacted by the agency AFP and stated that he was the only person to "openly fight for the rights" of Russian mercenaries and that the objectives of this supposed mission to Venezuela were not "clear".

The Kremlin spokesman also denied that the Maduro government has asked for military or financial badistance to Russia to overcome the crisis. "The important thing is that the Venezuelans themselves solve all the differences they can have in the constitutional framework, "he said.

The political, economic and social situation in the Caribbean country is further aggravated with the self-proclamation of Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela, before the new inauguration of Nicolás Maduro on January 10th.

The National Assembly will declare Maduro "usurper" for the start of a second term deemed illegitimate by the international community, which considers that his reelection was fraudulent. Since then, the United States, Canada and many countries of South America, including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, have been recognized as a legitimate authority. to the Leader of the Opposition.

Russia and China – both with a veto right to the United Nations Security Council – have confirmed their support for Maduro, along with historic allies from Caracas such as Turkey, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua.