Russia has suspended a deal on military co-operation with the United States in Syria, in response to the US bombing of Syrian state forces, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
The deal was designed to prevent possible military incidents between the two great powers, which support opposing sides in the Syrian civil war.
Russia condemns the United States' "illegitimate actions against the lawful Syrian government", the Foreign Ministry says in a statement, referring to the US bombing carried out in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian state military.
Russia denies that the Syrian state military used chemical weapons, and maintains that Syrian militants were responsible for a recent chemical weapons incident in the north-western province of Idlib, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
