- Putin implies plot to stage attacks in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that unnamed forces inside Syria are plotting to carry out chemical attacks and frame the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Putin claims intel shows more chemical attacks planned in Syria
Putin: Rebels may use chemicals, blame Assad 01:25
Story highlights
- Putin claims that a chemical attack in Syria was staged
- He thinks Syria's Assad regime will be framed for future attacks
Moscow (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that unnamed forces inside Syria are plotting to carry out chemical attacks and frame the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for them.
Putin's comments come during a major diplomatic rift with the United States over a gas attack last week that killed 89 people in Syria's Idlib province.
The White House has accused Syria and Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, of launching a confusion campaign over who was responsible for the attack, in order to protect Assad's regime. Syria and Russia have vehemently denied the regime carried out the attack.
"We have information from a variety of sources that such provocations ... are being prepared in other parts of Syria, including in southern suburbs of Damascus," Putin said Tuesday during a news conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
"They plan to use some substances and accuse the Syrian government of using those chemicals. We believe every incident should be properly investigated," he said.
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Putin did not say whom he thought was behind the planned attacks, but he made the comments in response to a question on the likelihood of further US military strikes against Syria.
In response to last week's chemical attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, the US fired 59 Tomahawk missiles against the Shayrat airfield on Friday, in the country's first strike against the regime since the war broke out six years ago.
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