Ankara confirmed on Tuesday that the deadly nerve agent sarin was used in last week's suspected chemical attack in the Idlib province in northwestern Syria.
The U.N. Security Council could vote as early as Wednesday on a push by the United States, Britain and France to bolster support for global inquiries into a deadly toxic gas attack in Syria, diplomats said, a move Russian Federation had deemed unacceptable and unwarranted.
The United States blamed President Bashar Assad's government and launched almost 60 cruise missiles on Friday at the Shayrat air base in the central province of Homs, where it claims the attack originated.
The UN concluded that rockets filled with sarin were fired at several rebel-held suburbs of Damascus in August 2013 after finding traces of IMPA in samples taken from the scene of the attack, which the U.S. blamed on Syria's government.
Mr Putin told reporters on Tuesday that Russian Federation would appeal to a United Nations agency in the Hague, urging it to launch an official probe.
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Shubenkov, 26, is a double European champion and also won a bronze medal at the 2013 world championships in Moscow. It's reported that the organization has received over 80 applications.
The Russian statements came as USA secretary of state Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow where he will meet Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. The Syrian government also denied the allegation, saying its air force bombed a rebel arsenal that had chemical weapons stored inside.
An Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) fact-finding mission is already investigating the attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in a rebel-held area of northern Syria.
A number of casualties were treated at hospitals in Turkey, which opposes Mr Assad, following last Tuesday's incident in neighbouring Idlib province.
Vladimir Putin also claimed rebels were planning "acts of provocation" using chemical weapons to encourage further USA strikes on government forces.
When a reporter asked for a clarification about the comments that Hitler did not use chemical weapons, Spicer then said: "I think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way Assad, there was clearly- I understand, thank you".
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