`` As a matter of long-standing policy , the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means . Accusations are `` ludicrous , '' U.S. State Department spokeswoman says . The United States has accused Russia of using a nerve agent on the outskirts of Damascus to kill more than 1,400 people in an attack that Washington blames on President Bashar al-Assad's government. He says Venezuela 's right-wing opposition groups and the U.S. government were behind the plot .
Accusations are `` ludicrous , '' U.S. State Department spokeswoman says . The United States has accused Russia of using a nerve agent on the outskirts of Damascus to kill more than 1,400 people in an attack that Washington blames on President Bashar al-Assad's government. He says Venezuela 's right-wing opposition groups and the U.S. government were behind the plot .