Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister has confirmed that Moscow will provide Syria with defence missiles.
Sergei Ryabkov told the press today that Russia plans to ship long-range S-300 air defence missiles to Syria in order to prevent foreign intervention by “hotheads”.
Israeli Minister of Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz condemned the deal.
He said: “We’re very concerned. We don’t understand — we think this behaviour of supplying such arms to Damascus, to Mr Assad, in this crucial time of terrible civil war, we think that this is totally wrong.”
