All jokes aside, #Russia will take every defensive measure necessary to protect its personnel stationed in #Syria from terrorist threat. Asked what message the Russians might have been trying to send, Earnest tried to laugh off the social media salvo. And the Russian embassy in the U.K. used its Twitter feed to poke fun at Western officials who view the deployment as concerning. “Russian S-300, S-400 air defense systems deployed in Syria's Hmeymim and Tartus have combat ranges that may surprise any unidentified airborne targets. Operators of Russian air defense systems won't have time to identify the origin of airstrikes, and the response will be immediate.

Source: Fox News October 06, 2016 18:37 UTC