A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday described the reports of recent Israeli airstrikes on Syria as “particularly worrying.”
“We are also verifying and analyzing all circumstances surrounding the particularly worrying reports of airstrikes on Damascus suburbs carried out by Israel on May 3 and 5,” Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement,according to RIA Novosti.
“The further escalation of an armed confrontation sharply increases the risk of new hotbeds of tension forming, which, apart from Syria, might also emerge in Lebanon,” the spokesman said in a statement published on the ministry’s website.
He said that the airstrikes might also “destabilize the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border, which so far remains relatively calm.”
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