Day: June 19, 2017

The defense Ministry will assume all of U.S. planes over Syria, the “air targets” The Russian defense Ministry said that any planes in the areas of military operations in Syria will be accepted to support defense. US actions in Syria — in fact, military aggression, said the Ministry of defence. Ministry of defense of Russia stops cooperation with the USA in the framework of the Memorandum on the prevention of incidents in the skies over Syria. This is stated in a statement received by RBC. The military said that in the skies over Syria, West of the Euphrates “planes and drones of the international coalition in Syria will be taken on the support means of air defense of Russia”. To such measures, the Ministry will resort after the destruction of the Syrian fighter-bomber su-22. The defense Ministry added that the fighting aircraft of the United States against “legitimate armed forces

Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov © Sergey Fadeichev/TASS   MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. Moscow considers the U.S. attack on air force fighter Syria an act of aggression and support for terrorists. This was stated to journalists on Monday, Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. “This attack should be viewed primarily as a continuation of the American line on the neglect norms of international law, the diplomat said, answering the question TASS. – Regardless of who is in power in Washington, the people there are accustomed to the fact that there are some rules and circumstances that allow them to look down disparagingly and in some situations openly ignore the basics of international behaviour”.

American fighter-bomber F/A-18E Super Hornet, shot down the Syrian su-22 © REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. The destruction of the American aircraft of a Syrian fighter plane over Syria is a violation of international law and military aggression against a member country of the UN, said on Monday the defense Ministry of the Russian Federation. “The destruction of the aircraft of the Syrian air force us aircraft in Syrian airspace is a cynical violation of the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic. The repeated fighting of the US air force under the guise of “fighting terrorism” against the legitimate armed forces of a member state of the UN is in flagrant violation of international law and, in fact, military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic”, – stated in the message of the Russian military.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Director Oliver stone stated that Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky only required to comply with the law, “head-on collisions was not.” It is reported by RIA “Novosti” with reference to released in the USA on a book-the transcript of the interview. “It was not head-on collisions. I just told them to be equidistant from the government. It was then popular term,” – said Putin, answering the question of whether it clashes “with Berezovsky or to people like Khodorkovsky”. Earlier, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a “criminal act” and not economic.

Photo: RIA Novosti Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the conflict in the Donbass cannot be solved with weapons, it is necessary to conduct direct negotiations between the parties to the conflict. He said this in an interview with the Director Oliver stone, reports RIA “Novosti”. “Such conflicts in the Donbas can not be solved by weapons. Direct talks are needed. And the sooner our friends in Kiev will understand the better. But Western countries, Europe and the U.S., should help the Kiev authorities to understand this reality,” he said. The book is a transcript of this interview was released in the U.S. on June 16. Earlier, Putin promised to provide maximum support to the people of Donbass.