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Threat of Chemical Weapons-Related Provocations in Syria Still Remains

6 Giugno 2017 BreakingNews @en di

The threat of provocations related to use of chemical weapons in Syria still remains, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, adding that terrorists might possess toxic substances. “There was repeated information about possible provocations with usage of toxic substances. And, of course, making it public was likely to help to avoid such provocations”, Peskov added. On Friday, Putin said at the International Economic Forum in Russia’s St. Petersburg (SPIEF) that Russia foiled planned chemical attacks’ reiteration on the Syrian territory by making public the intelligence data on the plot in early May. The Russia leader also refuted the reports of Syrian President Bashar Assad having stockpiles of toxic substances, and people having allegedly suffered from the chemical weapons and called them a “provocation”.

Russia denies Assad to blame for chemical attack, on course for collision with Trump

6 Aprile 2017 BreakingNews @en di

Russia denied on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame for a poison gas attack and said it would continue to back him, setting the Kremlin on course for its biggest diplomatic collision yet with Donald Trump’s White House. Western countries, including the United States, blamed Assad’s armed forces for the worst chemical attack in Syria for more than four years, which choked scores of people to death in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in a rebel-held area on Tuesday. Washington said it believed the deaths were caused by sarin nerve gas dropped by Syrian aircraft. But Moscow offered an alternative explanation that would shield Assad: that the poison gas belonged to rebels and had leaked from an insurgent weapons depot hit by Syrian bombs.

Russia wants to have a leading role in the reconstruction of Libya

4 Marzo 2017 BreakingNews @en di

Russia wants to have a leading role in the reconstruction of Libya. The Kremlin has meet the Prime Minister of Libya, Fayez Al-Sarraj, leader of the GNA (Government of National Accord) which is recognize as the legal representant of Libya at an international level. However, the Kremlin had met in November General Khalifa Haftar, the leader of Libyan National Army (LNA), who control a part of Tripoli and have an increasing influence on the East Libya.

Putin has been informed that Syrian government forces have taken control of Palmyra, with support from Russian warplanes

3 Marzo 2017 BreakingNews @en di

Kremlin’s spokesman says President Vladimir Putin has been informed by Russia’s defense minister that Syrian government forces have taken control of Palmyra, with support from Russian warplanes. Syrian state media said the government forces battling the Islamic State group re-entered Palmyra earlier in the day, aiming to retake the historic town that they had lost to the militants in December.

Russia asks for explanations about President Erdogan's statement on President Assad

1 Dicembre 2016 BreakingNews @en/Middle East - Africa di

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s statement that his forces in Syria were there to topple President Bashar al-Assad had come as a surprise to Moscow and that it expected an explanation from Ankara. In a speech on Tuesday, Erdogan condemned what he said was the failure of the United Nations in Syria and cast Turkey’s incursion in August, when it sent tanks, fighter jets and special forces over the border, as an act of exasperation. “We are there to bring justice. We are there to end the rule of the cruel Assad, who has been spreading state terror,” Erdogan said. “It is a very serious statement and one which differs from previous ones and with our understanding of the situation. We hope that our Turkish partners will provide us with some kind of explanation about this.”, Kremlin Spokeperson Bogdanov said.