Photo: ReutersMoscow: Russia on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as Moscow said it would consider supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria following US-led strikes. “The current escalation of the situation around Syria has a devastating impact on the whole system of international relations,” he added. Missiles for SyriaMoscow may consider supplying S-300 surface to-air missile systems to Syria and “other countries”, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi told a televised briefing on Saturday. Russia had “refused” supplying those missiles to Syria a few years ago, he added, “taking into account the pressing request of some of our Western partners”. “In the past year and a half Russia has fully restored Syria’s air defence system and continues to further upgrade it,” Rudskoi said.

Source: Mint April 14, 2018 12:22 UTC