VLADIVOSTOK (Sputnik) — Any US-led coalition attack against Syrian army facilities will represent a flagrant violation of international law, this fact is understood by several senior US officials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"I think that the 'hot heads' there will be calm downed and will treat the issue seriously. The good news is that according to the leaks, but it is a very reliable information, a number of senior figures in the US administration understand very well that any attack on ground targets, which belong to the Syrian army, is a flagrant violation of international law," Lavrov told Channel One in an interview.
"There were leaks that the cruise missiles could easily hit Syrian Air Force airfields, and the Syrian air force would no longer fly. The General Staff has already reacted on this. This is a very dangerous game, given that Russia, being in Syria at the invitation of the legitimate government of this country and having two bases there, one airbase in Hmeymim and the Russian Navy base in Tartus, has air defenses there to protect our facilities," he added.
"They [Washington] invented a vague rather than a specific reason to foil the agreements, claiming that Russia did not want to stop hostilities that bring suffering to civilians," Lavrov said.
The real reason for the United States to curb cooperation was that Washington failed to convince Syrian opposition militants to withdraw from Castello road in the city of Aleppo, Lavrov suggested.
