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Syria has been attacked just as it had a chance for peace. Russia`s foreign ministry says. hours after US. British and French forces pounded Damascus with air strikes in response to a suspected poison gas attack last week.
`First the `Arab spring` tested the Syrian people. then Islamic State. now smart American rockets. The capital of a sovereign government. trying for years to survive under terrorist aggression. has been attacked.` foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.
`You have to be quite abnormal to attack Syria`s capital just at the moment when it had a chance for a peaceful future.`
Russia`s ambassador to the United States said there would be consequences for the military strikes. adding that it was not acceptable to insult Russia`s president.
`A pre-designed scenario is being implemented.` Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Twitter.
`Again. we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences.`
Mr Antonov said: `Insulting the President of Russia is unacceptable and inadmissible.`
`The US – the possessor of the biggest arsenal of chemical weapons – has no moral right to blame other countries.` he added.
Announcing the strikes. US President Donald Trump criticised both Russia and Iran. which have backed Assad`s government.
`What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men. women and children?` Mr Trump asked.
Syrian state television said Russian forces had shot down more than a dozen missiles.
