Russian military officials on Tuesday slammed US-led coalition action against ISIL ‘jihadists’ in Syria as having had “less than zero” impact, and added that a US air strike killed 20 Syrian civilians this month. Russia’s involvement in that country since September 2015 had “changed the course of fighting terrorism in ...
The Kremlin deplored Tuesday the United States’ blacklisting of Russian figures as a move that further damages bilateral ties. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Washington’s decision to blacklist Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin, lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, represented “further steps in the artificially created degradation of our ...