A fair farm

Russia provides support for Syria through the supply of weapons and cooperation in the economic sphere and will continue to do this in the case of a military strike on the regime of Bashar al -Assad. This statement at the final press conference at the Great Twenty summit was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Will we help Syria? We will help. We will help. We supply weapons, we cooperate in the economic sphere. I hope there will be more humanitarian cooperation, including in the form of humanitarian assistance for supporting those people, the civilian population, which was in a very difficult situation today," Putin said.

The US Putin Putin’s security council has been categorically speaking about the US plans for conducting a military operation in Syria. "In such a difficult time for the global economy, the time to destabilize the situation in the Middle East is counterproductive. At least, I will say very diplomatic," he said.

Putin also spoke about the results of an unplanned meeting with US President Barack Obama, which took place during the summit. According to him, the Syrian problem was also in the center of these negotiations. “We remained at our own opinion, each with our own. But there is a dialogue. We hear each other, we understand the arguments. We do not agree with them. I do not agree with his arguments, but he does not agree with mine, but we hear, try to analyze,” Putin concluded.

Earlier on Friday, it became known that members of the State Duma and the Federation Council will not go to the United States to discuss the Syrian problems with the American congressmen. This was reported to RIA Novosti with reference to the speaker of the lower house Sergey Naryshkin. "The refusal of representatives of the US Congress to meet with the delegation of Russian parliamentarians to discuss the Syrian problem causes me a deep regret," the speaker noted.

The leader of the democratic majority in the US Senate Harry Reed, and then the speaker of the House of Representatives, John Beiner, first refused to meet with the Russian delegation.

In turn, the New York Times, citing a source in the White House, reported that US President Barack Obama ordered the Pentagon to increase the number of goals to strike American and French forces on the territory of Syria. The initial list of goals compiled by the French military includes 50 objects.

The goals of the coalition may be military units, responsible, according to Western intelligence, for chemical attacks, as well as the headquarters that these attacks planned, and artillery and missile batteries that directly inflicted strikes. According to the head of the United Committee of the chiefs of staff of Martin Dampsis, the targets of the air defense, regarded as a means of protecting chemical weapons, may also include.

It is not supposed to be applied in order to avoid unpredictable consequences in the actual warehouses with chemical weapons.

Obama also first raised the question of the participation of American and French aircraft in the planned operation. Earlier, it was about the fact that Syria would be bombarded with cruise missiles from the US warships in the Mediterranean Sea.

Obama is also currently located in St. Petersburg at the Summit of the Big Twenth countries. According to RIA Novosti, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, the opinions of the leaders of the G20 countries on the issue of operation in Syria were divided approximately equally. "A number of states defended the point of view on the need to take hasty measures, despite any legitimate international bodies. A whole number of other states called not to devalue international law and not to forget that only the UN Security Council has the right to make a decision on the application of force," Peskov said.