The statements of the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the need to investigate the war crimes of Russia in Syria are aimed to inflame the situation.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the aforementioned Friday, RIA Novosti reports.

Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State accused Russia and the Syrian authorities of committing war crimes during the military actions and urged to carry out relevant investigation.  

“Kerry’s statement is propaganda. There are some very serious legal consequences behind this terminology, and I think that Kerry used all of these terms to inflame the situation. If it comes to war crimes, US representatives should start with Iraq and then move to Libya, and of course Yemen to find out what's there. I want to say that juggling these words is very dangerous, because there are indeed war crimes on the part of the American representatives,” Zakharova noted.

She also added that “the American side was merely unable to implement the ceasefire agreement” in Syria. “They themselves told us they have no lever of pressure on the opposition,”the spokeswoman concluded.