At a press briefing, Press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov didn’t answer a question whether Russia purposely didn’t intercept the American missiles that blasted the Syrian Shayrat airbase.

The Kremlin’s representative also said that Russia believes that it is premature to put blames on anyone for the chemical attack before conducting an investigation.

 “We need to look for the answers to these questions together, but to make premature conclusions, immediately blaming someone, …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would support a US military operation in Syria against the country’s President Bashar Assad, according to western media.

“If the matter comes to practical realization, then we are ready to do anything that will be necessary,” he said.

Erdoğan added that he had talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the chemical attack in Syria, but he did not receive a clear answer about whether Assad had been involved in the action.

Before this, the …

Autopsies carried out in Turkey on bodies of the residents of the Syrian province of Idlib who were killed in the recent bombing prove that chemical weapons were used against them, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ stated.

“An autopsy of the dead revealed that chemical weapons were used in Idlib,” he said.

According to the Ministry of Health of Turkey, the nerve gas sarin was used during the attack.

There are 31 victims of the attack in Turkish hospitals, and 3 people have died.

On …

After the annexation of the Crimea, Russia established on the peninsula “a hard, semi-bandit, totalitarian regime, which, by some of its features, is even worse than the Soviet one," as stated by the leader of the Crimean people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, at a conference in Bratislava, Radio Liberty reports.

“The struggle of Crimean Tatars was long and persistent, but ultimately successful. Hundreds of people passed through prisons and camps. Some of them ended their lives in prison chambers and many …

Ukraine insists on improving the monitoring procedure by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, in particular, regarding the representation of the parties, as was stated by the representative of Ukraine to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, Iryna Herashchenko, as reported by Ukrinform.

"Ukraine insists on the need to improve the monitoring procedure itself. The current representation of the mission is not normal. In one year the number of mission representatives from …

The United States has "no defense" against ground-based cruise missiles recently deployed by Russia, according to a report submitted to Congress by a high-ranking American general.

The Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, General John Hyten, warned that Russian missile systems "are within range and can threaten most of the continent of Europe" and that the US "has no defense against it," especially with regard to the defense of European allies.

The US authorities described the deployment of …

On April 3, the Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the allocation of $1 billion credit to Ukraine. The four-year program of financial aid from the IMF allocates $17.5 billion to Ukraine. Kyiv has already received three tranches totaling $7.7 billion. The last tranche was received in September 2016. In 2017, Ukraine plans to receive about $5.4 billion from the IMF. And now the fourth tranche in the amount of $1 billion has begun to be transferred to the reserves …

The North Atlantic alliance will provide the State Emergency Service of Ukraine with material and technical assistance worth more than 1 million euros specifically for demining operations. This was reported by the First Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and Co-chairman of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council, Irina Herashchenko, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

"The Alliance has decided to provide material and technical assistance to the State Service of Ukraine for Emergencies in the amount …