The Kremlin cannot confirm that US Security Adviser John Bolton had reportedly warned Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev about possible strikes on Syria in case of a "chemical attack," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th August, 2018) The Kremlin cannot confirm that US Security Adviser John Bolton had reportedly warned Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev about possible strikes on Syria in case of a "chemical attack," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
On Saturday, media reported citing sources that Bolton told Patrushev at the Thursday talks in Geneva that the United States was ready to take military action if Damascus used chemical weapons in the Idlib province.
"No," Peskov told reporters, when asked whether he could confirm that there had been such a warning.
