MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. The administration of the US president this week is planning to discuss new sanctions against Russia. This is reported by "Kommersant" referring to a source close to the State Department.

The author of the new draft of sanctions was John Bolton, who now assumes the post of national security adviser. He is known for his radical position in relation to Russia.

Earlier, a number of Internet portals published reports with reference to militants on the application of the Syrian army in the city of the Duma of chlorine. The organization "White Helmets", which is in fact a volunteer corps of jihadists, which creates a positive PR, announced about 25-70 dead.

Washington has charged Moscow and Tehran with responsibility for the "chemical attack" in the city of the Duma, as Russia and Iran support Syrian President Bashar Assad. Moscow refuted information about the chlorine bomb allegedly dropped by the Syrian military. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the injections of poisonous substances are aimed at fencing terrorists. The department believes that the West is trying to find justification for possible power strikes against Syria from outside.

Head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov noted before the incident in the Duma that the terrorists planned to stage the Khimataks in East Gut. Reports of the use of chemical weapons would be the reason for the United States to strike at the Syrian troops. Gerasimov also noted that US missiles and their carriers would be shot down if Russian servicemen were in the zone of the alleged strike.

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