The UN Security Council met on Friday after Russia condemned the US missile strike on a Syrian air base and vowed to help beef up the regime’s air defences.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the US action was an “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law”. Dmitry Peskov added that the attack had dealt “a significant blow to the Russia-US relations, which are already in a deplorable shape”.
Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian defence ministry, said the Russian military would now take steps to strengthen Syrian air defences to help “protect the most sensitive Syrian infrastructure facilities”.
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