Russia helping Syria modernize its air defense system, ambassador says

Much is yet to be done because everything was in utter devastation, but certain results can already be seen, Alexander Kinshchak said

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DAMASCUS/TASS/. Russia is helping Syria restore and modernized its air defense system, Russia’s Ambassador to that country, Alexander Kinshchak, told TASS on Friday.

“We are helping our Syrian partners to restore, modernize and boost the efficiency of the integrated air defense system,” he said when asked how well Syria is protected against possible airstrikes by Western nations.

“Much is yet to be done because everything was in utter devastation, but certain results can already be seen,” he said.

S-300 air defense missile system

Highly efficient air defenses can be created in Syria with Russia’s help — senator

In late April, chief of the main operations directorate of the Russian General Staff, Sergei Rudskoi, said that Syria would soon receive new air defense systems and promised that Russian specialists would help the Syrian military to master them. He refrained from details of the systems, saying only that the S-125, Osa and Kvadrat systems used by the Syrian army had been restored and modernized with Russia’s assistance.



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http://tass.com/defense/1020544

In late August, the Russian Defense Ministry warned about a possible provocation plotted in the Syrian Idlib governorate by militants under supervision of British special services. Thus, according to the ministry, militants were planning to simulate the use of chemical weapons against civilians by Syrian government troops to furnish the United States, the United Kingdom and France with a pretext to deliver an airstrike on Syrian government and economic facilities.

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  1. Well, we can’t have anyone interfering with Israel’s ability* to attack its neighbors with no repercussions, eh?

    *Including of course, proxy Israeli attacks by US armed forces.

  2. Funny (but not ha ha funny) how Russia only helps Syria with air defense systems capable of shooting down slow drones, unmanned obsolete cruise missiles, artillery rockets, and air-dropped bombs, but not US and Israeli warplanes.

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