The United States is imposing new sanctions on Russia because of the poisoning of the former double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The US had never formally acknowledged that Russia had violated international rules on the use of chemical weapons with that poisoning in Britain. Russia reacts angrily to the measures.
An American exploratory plane and a Russian fighter plane have crossed each other. The life-threatening incident occurred over the Baltic Sea, where only two and a half meters separated the two devices.
Russia and the United States will again try to improve the situation in war-torn Syria. Following a telephone conversation between the presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the White House and the Kremlin expressed statements that enabled them to commit themselves to 'a real peace process'.
The United States sends a delegate to Astana to attend the peace talks on Syria. That has announced the White House, after President Donald Trump had talked with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin. During the G20 in Hamburg (5 and 6 July), both leaders meet for the first time personally.
Russia has new missiles for deployed medium-range and does thereby not respecting the agreements in the Russian-American INF Treaty (Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces). That the CNN reported Wednesday invoking government sources. The New York Times reported it.
Trump president of the United States and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed on the necessity of restoring the economic and trade relations. Whether that also means that the US economic sanctions were lifted or even reduced to Russia, is not clear.
