President Vladimir Putin said on April 11 that Russia had information that the United States was planning to launch new missile strikes on Syria, and that there were plans to fake chemicals weapons attacks there.
Reuters: Putin says expects ‘fake’ gas attacks to discredit Syria’s Assad
A picture taken on March 9, 2017 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, which was recaptured by government forces in December 2016, shows Syrians walking past a giant poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (R).
