Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that thinking about targeting Syrian military airbases is a “dangerous game” and noted that his country’s aircraft are there at the request of Syria’s “legitimate government,” Russia’s First Channel TV has reported. “This is a very dangerous game given that Russia has got air defence systems there to protect its assets at two bases used by its air force.”
The foreign minister said that Russia knows that US troops understand this, and ruled out that outgoing American President Barack Obama would accept such a scenario.
Lavrov suggested that there has been a full shift …read more
Source: Middle East Monitor
