Russian envoy: US missiles and launch sites will be targeted if fired at Syria

“If there is a strike by the Americans in Syria then … the missiles will be downed and even their launch sites would be targeted,” Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin told Hizballah’s al-Manar TV Wednesday. The ambassador said he was citing a statement by President Vladimir Putin and the Russian chief of staff. DEBKAfile:  Moscow’s choice of the TV station of Iran’s Lebanese proxy as the platform for its harshest and most explicit threat yet against a US military strike attests to the high degree of Russian-Iranian coordination for its response to the projected US-British-French operation in Syria. His reference to “launch sites” means that US aircraft and naval craft are also in Moscow’s sights.

 

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