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Moscow 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".
Following the U.S.-led strikes, however, "we consider it possible to return to examination of this issue not only in regard to Syria but to other countries as well," Rudskoi said.
Syria's air defense system, which mostly consists of systems made in the Soviet Union, has intercepted 71 of the missiles fired on Saturday by the U.S., British and French forces, he added.
"In the past year and a half Russia has fully restored Syria's air defense system and continues to further upgrade it," Rudskoi said.
Source Russia calls for UN meeting on Syria, mulls supplies of S-300 systems
HOW THE S-300 MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM WORKS
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".
Following the U.S.-led strikes, however, "we consider it possible to return to examination of this issue not only in regard to Syria but to other countries as well," Rudskoi said.
Syria's air defense system, which mostly consists of systems made in the Soviet Union, has intercepted 71 of the missiles fired on Saturday by the U.S., British and French forces, he added.
"In the past year and a half Russia has fully restored Syria's air defense system and continues to further upgrade it," Rudskoi said.
Source Russia calls for UN meeting on Syria, mulls supplies of S-300 systems
HOW THE S-300 MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM WORKS