MOSCOW, October 12. /TASS/. The United States underestimate the consequences of meddling with terrorists and using them for the achievement of national political goals, particularly in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with French television channel TF1.

The Russian president said that the current situation in Aleppo is under control of the Jabhat an-Nusra terrorist organization.

"They want to use the combat potential of these terrorist organizations and radicals to achieve political goals, which in this particular case is to overthrow (Syrian) President (Bashr) Assad and his government, without realizing that it would be later impossible to put them (terrorists) back in the so-called stables and make them living like civilized people."

"I believe that our partners keep falling into the same trap over and over again," Putin said.

"What makes us sad and bewilders at the same time is that our partners in Washington are trying to pull out this organization beyond the frames of terrorist organizations," the Russian president added.

Responsibility for the situation in Aleppo rests first of all with the United States and its allies, Vladimir Putin said:

"I am deeply convinced that responsibility for the situation that has developed in the region on the whole and in Syria in particular, first of all rests with our Western partners, and of course first of all with the US and its allies."

The president said accusations targeting Russia for alleged war crimes in Syria are "political rhetoric which doesn’t make much sense and does not take into account the real state of things".

Deplorable results of exported democracy

"Let us remember how passionately everybody supported the Arab spring," he went on. "Where is this optimism now? How did it all end? Let us bring back to mind what were Libya or Iraq before these states or state structures were destroyed by forces of our different Western partners," he said. "Of course, these were not examples of democracy in our today’s understanding," Putin stressed.

He agreed that "possibly influence could and should have been put to change the pattern of the society, the structure of the state, the government, the very nature of power," in some countries of that region. "But in any case, most certainly there were no signs of terrorism there," Putin said.

He said these countries posed no danger to France, the US and Russia. "Now, this is a source of a terrorist threat," he stated. "Our aim is to prevent the same in Syria," Putin added.

He recalled US airstrikes on an Afghan hospital in which representatives of Medicines sans Frontieres were killed, as well as attacks on wedding ceremonies and on a funeral procession in Yemen. "Unfortunately, innocent people suffer in any place where warfare is underway," he stated. "But we cannot let the terrorists use people as human shield, we cannot let them blackmail the entire world, when they are taking somebody hostage, when they kill and behead people," Putin went on.

"If you want to bring fight against terrorism to an end, we must fight against them instead of going on their leash, bow or backtrack," he said.

US refused to protect road to Aleppo together with Russia

Putin said he had not granted permission to Russian military to protect the road for supply of humanitarian cargoes to Aleppo alone, and the US refused to do this jointly.