“Over the course of the operation, a total of more than 87,500 rebels have been eliminated, 1,411 settlements have been liberated and more than 95 percent of Syria’s territory,” Shoigu was quoted as saying at a forum in Singapore in a ministry statement.

The security and military businesses targeted by the sanctions included the Wagner Group, a private security company which Moscow allegedly use in their Syria operations; Oboronlogistika 000, responsible for feeding and transporting Russian troops in Crimea and KnAAPO, an aircraft manufacturer.

“The president is deadly serious to make sure that chemical weapons don’t become the norm in the way nations act around the world,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

First Deputy Head of the GRU Vladimir Alekseev, Deputy Chief of the GRU Sergei Gizunov, GRU supervisor Igor Korobov, Deputy Chief of the GRU Igor Kostyukov.

Not satisfied with the Saudi story on how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in Turkey, EU leaders are demanding an in-depth probe, with Germany’s foreign minister saying that Berlin shouldn’t sell arms to Riyadh until it’s finished.

The first stories asserted that “Petrov” and “Boshirov” were likely not their real names; that their phone numbers and addresses seemed to be associated with a Moscow neighborhood where the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service, has offices.

The plot was foiled by Dutch and British intelligence agencies, and resulted in the arrest of four men said to be members of the Russian military’s massive spy agency, the GRU.

Mishkin and Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, the other suspect who used the alias Ruslan Boshirov, are believed to have carried out the March novichok attack after they were captured on CCTV in Salisbury.

“Over the course of the operation, a total of more than 87,500 rebels have been eliminated, 1,411 settlements have been liberated and more than 95 percent of Syria’s territory,” Shoigu was quoted as saying at a forum in Singapore in a ministry statement.

Verzilov was quickly flown to Germany and placed in a local clinic…. He also tweeted that he was “ spending time in the wonderful company of poisons ,” adding that these were not Polonium or Novichok, but something “ completely surprising .” Всем огромный привет, котятки – очень очень много написали добрых слов, спассссибаа!

Sawers was speaking at an event in Salisbury, southwest England, where ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his adult daughter, Yulia, were poisoned in March with the military-grade nerve agent Novichok.

Salisbury poisoning suspects:… Salisbury poisoning suspects:

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S audi officials found to have been involved in the killing of a prominent journalist in Turkey should be targeted by new sanctions introduced by Theresa May in the wake of the Salisbury attack, MPs and campaigners said on Saturday.

15, which he achieved in August, before the season is out, Tsitsipas has qualified easily for the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan – but he has made no secret of the fact that he has his sights set on the main event, the Nitto ATP Finals in London, instead.

A SALISBURY-BASED choreographer is performing her award-winning dance to a ten thousand audience at a major festival in Lithuania this month…. “This will add to my experience as a performer and hopefully make me a more confident dancer.” The former South Wilts Grammar School student, initially trained at Salisbury Dance Studios before going on to study a BA (Hons) Dance degree at De Montfort University where she achieved a First Class Honours Degree.

Mueller, whose work is ongoing, charged a dozen Russian military officers with hacking Democrats’ computers, as well as 13 people and three companies who his prosecutors’ allege ran an online propaganda operation to push voters away from Hillary Clinton and toward Donald Trump in 2016.

Manafort also stayed in touch through this year with his Russian associate Konstantin Kilimnik, whom prosecutors say has ties to the same Russian military intelligence operation that allegedly hacked the Democrats during the election.

The UK, Germany, France and the European Union have demanded the Saudis conduct a credible investigation and take part in Turkey’s probe over what happened…. “At a time when the UK is reshaping it’s foreign policy and the role it would like to play on the global stage, and when it states that as part of that role it wants to defend and uphold the international rules based order, the UK risks significant reputational damage if it were to take a softer stance on this than it did with Russia over the Novichok attack,” she told CNN.

“Over the course of the operation, a total of more than 87,500 rebels have been eliminated, 1,411 settlements have been liberated and more than 95 percent of Syria’s territory,” Shoigu was quoted as saying at a forum in Singapore in a ministry statement.

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states and their partners to join the humanitarian and recovery mission in Syria.

GETTY) Sergey Shoigu said the evil terror cult has been driven out of the country three years after Russia began military actions there…. At a meeting with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Mr Shoigu said Russia’s relentless air strikes in the region had resulted in the desired effect.

Much of the international community also opposes Assad, who has been accused of using chemical weapons against his own people.

The plot was foiled by Dutch and British intelligence agencies, and resulted in the arrest of four men said to be members of the Russian military’s massive spy agency, the GRU.

The UK, Germany, France and the European Union have demanded the Saudis conduct a credible investigation and take part in Turkey’s probe over what happened…. stage, and when it states that as part of that role it wants to defend and uphold the international rules based order, the UK risks significant reputational damage if it were to take a softer stance on this than it did with Russia over the Novichok attack,” she told CNN.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says almost 88,000 foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists have been killed in Syria ever since Moscow launched its counter-terrorism airstrikes against militant redoubts in the Arab country more than three years ago.

SALISBURY, N.C…. Duke Energy’s first coal plant in Salisbury, N.C., was decommissioned and imploded with nearly 300 charges of explosives.

  The visit comes amid high tensions with Moscow on several fronts, including the conflict in Syria and the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain earlier this year.

Syria — A TV grab shows an inspector from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at work at an undisclosed location in Syria, October 8, 2013 But on September 10, 2014 the OPCW found “compelling confirmation” that chlorine gas had been used “systematically and repeatedly” as a weapon in Syria.