Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that if America attacks Syria, it will bring down the peace process in the region. Zakharova stressed that at the present time, a dramatization of the use of chemical weapons by the troops of the Syrian government in the Idliba zone. According to the diplomat, this is done to ensure that the United States is struck by missiles on government troops. "By this, the United States of America will throw back all the measures taken on the Syrian peace settlement. And in this you need to give an account, "- leads the RIA Novosti news agency Zakharova. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier said that in Syria, the usual American foreign policy has failed.

Political scientist Andrei Koshkin agreed with the opinion of Russian minister Lavrov and stressed that the White House is considering a new chemical provocation as a certain revenge. "The United States intends to take revenge, they are ready to conduct another chemical provocation in the hope that their act of retribution again destabilizes the situation in the country," the political scientist said in a commentary by RIA FAN. The Russian ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, at a meeting with representatives of the State Department warned the US against military aggression in the RA, reports RIA FAN.