28 Mar 2024
TASS - The US strike against Syrias facilities is an aggression and impairs both the Russian-US relations and the common fight against terrorism, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday citing the opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"President Putin considers the US strikes against Syria an aggression against a sovereign country violating the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that," Peskov said. He noted that the Syrian army has no chemical weapons stockpiles. "The fact that all Syrian armed forces chemical weapons stockpiles were eliminated was registered and confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a specialized UN unit," he said.

"Putin believes that total disregard for the use of chemical weapons by terrorists only exacerbates the situation significantly," Peskov went on to say. "Putin also sees the strikes on Syria by the US as an attempt to divert the attention of the international community from numerous civilians casualties in Iraq."

"Washingtons move impairs the Russian-US relations, which are in a deplorable state, substantially," Peskov emphasized.

"And, most importantly, Putin believes that this step does not bring us closer to the ultimate goal in the fight against international terrorism. On the contrary, it creates serious obstacles to efforts to forge an international coalition to fight against it and effectively counter this global evil. By the way, US President Donald Trump proclaimed this as one of the key objectives during his election campaign," the Kremlin spokesman said.

The US military fired at least 50 cruise missiles at a military base of the Syrian government forces in the Homs province last night. The missile strike comes in response to what Washington believes was the Syrian governments use of banned chemical weapons in the province of Idlib. The Tomahawk cruise missiles were intended for a single target - an airfield in the Homs province from which, according to the US intelligence data, the alleged chemical attack was launched.

US President Donald Trump confirmed that he had ordered to carry out the strike.

 
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