Video: Hillary Clinton: 'there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria' The regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been accused of using helicopter gunships to strafe rebel positions in cities across the country. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said: "We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria. They have, from time to time, said that we shouldn't worry - everything they are shipping is unrelated to their [the Syrian government's] actions internally. That's patently untrue. And we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.