Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tarayyar Soviet ta soki mamayar Saddam Hussein na 2 ga watan Agustan 1990 na Kuwait
, kuma ya goyi bayan shawarar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya da ke ba da izinin amfani da karfin soja, idan ya cancanta, don aiwatar da takunkumin makamai a kan Iraki. Amma tallafin soja na Tarayyar Soviet ga Hussein ya kuma jawo zargi mai yawa daga Amurka da sauran ƙasashen yamma. A Washington, DC, masana harkokin waje na Gidauniyar Heritage Jay P. Kosminsky da Michael Johns sun rubuta a ranar 30 ga Agusta 1990 cewa, "Yayin da yake yin Allah wadai da mamayar Iraki, Gorbachev ya ci gaba da taimakawa Saddam a soja. Ta hanyar shigar da kansa na Moscow, a cikin taron manema labarai na ranar 22 ga watan Agusta tare da Janar Janar Valentin Ogurtsov, masu ba da shawara na soja na Soviet 193 har yanzu suna horarwa da taimakawa sojojin Iraki miliyan daya. A asirce, majiyoyin Pentagon sun ce tsakanin masu ba da shawara na soja na Soviet 3,000 zuwa 4,000 na iya kasancewa a Iraki. "