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Russia To Upgrade Syria Air Defenses, Suspends Airspace Pact With U.S.

Russia To Upgrade Syria Air Defenses, Suspends Airspace Pact With U.S.

If Trump wanted to provoke the Kremlin - an odd decision considering all the daily "press coverage" that the Kremlin controlled the president - he has achieved just that: Russia said it will reinforce Syria's air defences and, as reported previously, is sending a missile carrying warship to the eastern Mediterranean in response to a US cruise missile strikes on a Syrian government airbase.

Putin Responds: Syria Strikes "Cripple US-Russia Relations"; Deploys Cruise Missile Frigate To Syria

Putin Responds: Syria Strikes "Cripple US-Russia Relations"; Deploys Cruise Missile Frigate To Syria

Responding to Trump's unexpected military attack on Syria in which 59 cruise missiles were launched (of which only 23 allegedly hit their target), Russian President Vladimir Putin "regards the strikes as aggression against a sovereign nation,” his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, noting that the president believes the strikes were carried out “in violation of international law, and also under an invented pretext.”

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