U.S.-Led Coalition Claims:

Russia's S-300 Delivery to Syria Hasn't Changed Anything

Date: 02 October 2018 - 22:14

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MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Russia's decision to provide Syria with S-300 systems has had no impact on U.S.-led forces on the ground thus far, according to U.S. spokesman Colonel Sean Ryan.
"It hasn't changed anything," Ryan said. "It's always a concern when a new piece of equipment is brought into the region but we have a deconfliction process with them [the Russians] that we plan on using."
Last month, Russia decided to provide Syria with the S-300 air defense systems. The decision came after a Russian Il-20 plane was downed by Syria's forces that were targeting Zionist F-16 jets that were attacking the facilities in the Syrian province of Latakia.
Russia has reportedly been using the world’s largest military transport aircraft to transport S-300 missile defense systems to Syria amid tensions with the occupying regime of Israel over the fatal crash of a Russian plane in the Arab country, which Moscow blamed on Tel Aviv.
Israel’s Ynet news site reported that the Russian-made Antonov An-124 Ruslan (also known as the Condor), which are used by the Russian Air Force as well as several cargo operators, had been spotted on the Russia-Syria air route over the past several days.
The first An-124 plane, the report said, had been spotted arriving at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase in Syria’s Latakia Province on Thursday evening.
Last month, Moscow vowed to bolster Syria’s air defense capabilities by deploying the modern S-300 surface-to-air missile system to the Arab country.
The announcement came in the wake of the accidental downing of an Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft with 15 servicemen on board by Syria’s S-200 air defense systems which were at the time responding to a wave of Israeli strikes on state institutions in Latakia.
Moscow held the Zionist regime responsible for the September 17 incident, saying the regime’s pilots had intentionally used the Russian plane as cover to conduct air raids, effectively putting it in the crosshairs of the Syrian air defenses.

Russia will send s-300 anti-missile system to Syria after Il-20 crash.