Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Moscow will deliver the S-300 air defense system to Syria because it would help deter “hotheads” intent on intervention in the conflict.
“We think this delivery is a stabilizing factor and that such steps in many ways restrain some hotheads from exploring scenarios in which this conflict could be given an international character with participation of outside forces,” he told a news conference.
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