Russian President Vladimir Putin convened the security Council of the Russian Federation in connection with the missile strike the US on the Syrian air base. About it to journalists in Moscow said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.
“There will be a meeting of the security Council in connection with the missile strikes, which the US night inflicted on Syria,” – said Peskov.
Earlier Peskov said that Putin believes a missile strike by US on Syria aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law under false pretenses. He also believes that this attack deals damage relations between Moscow and Washington.
Recall that the US Navy ships stationed in the Mediterranean sea, struck by Tomahawk missiles at air base by Syrian government forces on 7 April.
In all there were 59 missiles that were aimed at the runway, and aircraft Parking and refueling facilities.
The operation was carried out by order of the President of Donald trump in response to a chemical attack in Idlib. As explained trump, a military strike was inflicted on the airfield, where they had carried out a chemical attack.
Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said that the United States has warned the Russian military personnel in Syria that the airbase shirt in the province of HOMS will be dealt a missile strike.
Recall that hundreds of Syrians died from the chemical weapons (presumably sarin gas) – after the bombing sites of the Syrian armed opposition in Idlib town of Khan shaykhun was covered with a poisonous cloud. According to eyewitnesses, people were dying from suffocation, many lying on the ground motionless, the other was observed vomiting and was frothing at the mouth.
