Thomson ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin has chaired a meeting with the country’s Security Council to discuss possible “confidence-building” steps in the skies over the Baltic region and details in connection with a NATO summit later this week, a presidential spokesman said.
Putin also talked with the council’s permanent members about the situation in Syria, where Russia has been waging a campaign of aerial bombardment in support of embattled ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Moscow says is also targeting “international terrorists.”
Western governments have accused Russia’s military of courting possible disaster over the past two years over the Baltic Sea and elsewhere …read more
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