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The American warships of Porter and Ross, located in the Eastern Mediterranean, produced 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Bashar Assad Ash-Shayrat airbase in Muhafaz Khoms. It is reported by Reuters. It is on the Ash Shayrat, according to Washington, the dictator chemical weapon warehouse is located.

The blow was dealt at about 3:40 in the morning of the Syrian time (coincides with Moscow) on the orders of President Donald Trump. The shelling was subjected to a runway, planes, aircraft and refueling nodes. According to Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis, the aircraft and infrastructure of the base are destroyed or seriously damaged and this will complicate the Assad of further chemical attacks.

The Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Center confirmed that Ash-Shayrat is almost completely destroyed. At least four military Assad, including one general; Dozens wounded.

According to human rights defenders, the Su-22, Su-24 and MiG-23 aircraft were based on Ash-Shayrat.

President Trump said that he gave his order in response to the use of Assad on Tuesday of chemical weapons in the city of Khan-Sheikhun, Muhafaz Idlib. He emphasized that the decision was made in the interests of US national security.

“All attempts to influence the behavior of Assad, the previous years made, failed, and failed with a bang,” the president noted.

A blow to Ash -Shayrat is the most tough US action in Syria for all six years of the war, which continues in the Middle Eastern country. It is noted that Washington’s actions may lead to confrontation with Russia and Iran, the main military allies of Assad.

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The US administration informed Moscow about the upcoming strike; The sections of the Ash Shayrat, occupied by the Russian troops, were not subjected to shelling. At the same time, Washington did not try to get the consent of Moscow to the attack itself.

One of the Pentagon officials noticed Reuters that the blow to the Ash Shayrat was a one-time action. Further power actions of the United States against Assad are not planned. As the agency notes, Trump is trying to limit himself to point air strikes without resorting to a full -scale operation.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called an attack on the Esh-Shayrat "proportional" measure. He also stated that Russia failed to ensure the implementation of the Assad in 2013 an agreement on the destruction of the Syrian chemical arsenal. Thus, the Secretary of State noted, Moscow is either involved in a violation of this agreement, or is unable to influence the dictator.

According to Interfax, on Thursday morning, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said that his chief "considers American attacks on Syria aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law, and under a far-fetched pretext." The official referred to the fact that earlier the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons previously confirmed the destruction of Assad to its chemical arsenal.

“At the same time, according to Putin, the complete ignoring the facts of using chemical weapons with terrorists only significantly exacerbates the situation,” Peskov noted.

A blow to the Ash-Shayrat, the official continued, "causes significant damage to Russian-American relations, already in a deplorable state."

In addition, Peskov said that "Putin also sees in strikes on Syria from the United States an attempt to divert the attention of the world community from numerous casualties among the civilian population in Iraq."

“And most importantly, according to Putin, this step does not bring us closer to the ultimate goal in the fight against international terrorism, but on the contrary, creates a serious obstacle to creating an international coalition to combat it and effective opposition to this worldwide evil,” the official concluded.

According to Medusa with reference to the data of the Moscow Exchange, the ruble exchange rate after a report of the American strike has sharply decreased. At the opening of bidding on Friday, the dollar grew by 60 kopecks to 57 rubles, the euro - by 70 kopecks to 60.7 rubles.

At the same time, Russian exchange indices decreased: MICEX by 1 percent, RTS - by more than 2 percent.

At the same time, the course of the Russian currency fell, even despite the increase in oil prices caused by an American attack. According to Reuters, the price of crude oil rose by more than 2 percent, reaching a monthly maximum.

The fact that Trump does not exclude a force response to the last chemical attack of Assad became known on Thursday evening in Moscow. It was reported that the president is discussing the issue of the head of the Pentagon James Mattis.

Meanwhile, in Turkey, they gave an autopsy of the bodies of three who died from Him-Sheikhun. The country's Ministry of Health confirmed that Assad applied Zarin against the inhabitants of the city.

Meanwhile, Peskov called for a "much more balanced approach." “We do not consider it possible to indulge in some kind of hasty assessments of what happened in Syria,” the official said.

As a result of an attack on Khan Sheikhun. At least 72 people were killed , including 20 children and 17 women. The number of victims, according to various sources, amounted to more than 160 to 300 people.

Later, on Tuesday, the Rahma hospital was bombed, where in particular, some of the victims of morning raid were in particular. It was noted that this blow was expected by Russian aviation.

On Wednesday, the UN Security Council after discussion postponed the vote on the draft resolution on the past chimatak. The reason was a sharply negative reaction of Russia to a draft document proposed by the United States, Great Britain and France.

The US Permanent Representative to the UN Nickei Haley said in this regard: "If the UN sequentially demonstrates the inability to fulfill its duty and act collectively, the states are coming to the time when they are forced to take actions on their own."