Defense Shield May Harmful Illusion of Invincibility and Impunity in US - Moscow

© AFP 2023 / Ford Williams/U.S. NavyIn this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017.
In this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. - Sputnik International
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The deployment of missile defense systems by the United States may lead Washington to taking dangerous unilateral steps bypassing the UN Security Council, like a strike on a Syrian airbase, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On April 7, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syria's military airfield in Ash Sha'irat, claiming it was a response to the alleged chemical weapon use in the Idlib province.

"The presence of a missile defense shield may lead to a harmful illusion of invincibility and impunity, and thus create a temptation in 'hot heads' in Washington for new dangerous unilateral steps in settling global and regional problems without the UN Security Council and against common sense, as it was done on April 7… when the United States carried out a missile strike on a sovereign state of Syria," the statement said.

On April 4, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces claimed that 80 people were killed and 200 injured in a suspected chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, blaming the Syrian government. Damascus vehemently rejected the accusations and said militants and their allies were responsible.

Early April 7, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha'irat, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the city of Homs. US President Donald Trump said the attack was a response to the alleged chemical weapon use in Syria's Idlib, which Washington blames on the Syrian government. Russia described the attack as an aggression against a sovereign state.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry reminded the Trump administration that all chemical weapons had been taken out of Syria in mid-2014 with the help of the previous administration of ex-president Barack Obama.

Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Sputnik that Western states are blocking attempts to investigate the Idlib chemical incident because in the event of a probe it will be established that the "attack" was a false flag and lie.

The OPCW announced in January 2016 that Syria's weapons arsenal had been destroyed in accordance with an agreement reached after the 2013 Ghouta attack.

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