"U.S. and Russian interests, whether in Syria, toward North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, human rights, etc. are far too different despite President Trump's earlier interest in an understanding", White said. Instead, Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who had met earlier on Wednesday, joined Putin for more than two hours.
Lavrov emphasized that this issue was raised during his discussions with the US Secretary of State on Wednesday when Rex Tillerson was visiting Moscow. It was stark evidence that the president is moving ever further from his campaign promises to establish better ties with Moscow.
The Russian hacking controversy, which remains the subject of United States probes by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional committees, sidetracked Trump's campaign pledges to seek better relations with Putin, whom he praised as a strong leader. "And one of them was to stall the peace process (in Syria)".
Still, Trump quickly reverted to a conciliatory tone Thursday, hinting that he hasn't abandoned hope for warmer ties.
Jeffrey Mankoff, deputy director and a senior fellow with the Russian Federation and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, suggested that a lack of predictability in US foreign policy under the Trump administration is exacerbating the deteriorating level of trust between the countries and could lead to deeper problems.
Following a meeting between USA secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday, Donald Trump warned relations were "at an all-time low".
The US military and intelligence community has intercepted communications featuring Syrian military and chemical experts talking about preparations for the sarin attack in Idlib last week, a senior US official tells CNN. Trump said it was "certainly possible" though "probably unlikely".
The palpable tension hanging over U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Russian Federation, spoke to a widening chasm between the former Cold War foes.
Russia's top diplomat accused the United States yesterday of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Russian Federation and Syria claim toxic agents were released from a rebel chemical arsenal hit by Syrian warplanes.
Disagreeing with Britain, France and the United States on how an investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) would be conducted in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun, Russia blocked and China abstained from voting for a draft United Nations Security Council resolution preemptively declaring the attack to be chemical in nature. They are defending ISIS against the Syrian government and the Syrian Army.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said it has no information about the strike.
By contrast, Mr. Putin - whose unwavering support has kept Assad in power the past few years - stands to benefit from the chemical attack.
"It is clear to all of us that the reign of the Assad family is coming to an end".
Lavrov blasted USA claims that it has "irrefutable evidence" of election interference.
Damascus highly values Moscow's position on the USA aggression, he said. "No one showed us anything, no one said anything, although we repeatedly asked to produce the details on which these unfounded accusations lie".
In this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017.
The U.S. has blamed the Syrian government for launching the attack that killed more than 80, while Russian Federation has claimed that toxic agents were released from a rebel chemical arsenal hit by Syrian warplanes. But Putin's tendency to confirm his influence in the broader region of Russian Federation and in the Middle East via Syria is something we can take for granted.
For Trump, it's a dramatic reversal from his repeated campaign pledges to forge a new U.S.
Chemical weapons used in Syria. "We consider it of utmost importance to prevent the risks of replay of similar action in the future".
Trump's primary goal in Syria, he repeated this week, is the eradication of ISIS and other terrorist groups. Al-Assad insisted several times that his forces had turned over all chemical weapons stockpiles in 2013, under a deal brokered by Russian Federation to avoid threatened U.S. military action. Let's not forget, Trump was a huge proponent of telling former President Barack Obama to not get involved when Assad crossed his "red line" on chemical weapons.
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