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No Russian Casualties in US Missile Attack in Syria - Lavrov

© REUTERS / Robert S. Price/Courtesy U.S. NavyU.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile in Mediterranean Sea which U.S. Defense Department said was a part of cruise missile strike against Syria on April 7, 2017.
U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile in Mediterranean Sea which U.S. Defense Department said was a part of cruise missile strike against Syria on April 7, 2017. - Sputnik International
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There have been no Russian casualties in the US missile attack on a Syrian airfield, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday.

TASHKENT (Sputnik) — Fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles struck the Syrian airfield at 4:40 a.m Syrian time. They were launched from the destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean. Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammo supply bunkers, air defense systems, and radars were targeted.

"As far as the casualties among the Russian servicemen, I know nothing of this, most likely there were no such casualties," Lavrov told a press conference.

This Oct. 7, 2016 satellite image released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows Shayrat air base in Syria. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles on Friday, April 7, 2017 in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. - Sputnik International
Syrian Sha'irat Airbase Heavily Damaged After US Strike, All Planes Out of Order
Earlier in the day, the Homs governor said that two Syrian civilians and five troops were killed in the US missile strike.

A Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene of the attack some hardware had been salvaged, including five Syrian fighter jets. The runway also seemed to have been spared, he said, as well as a few hangars, but eight others were taken out of service.

Russia has condemned the strike as an aggression against a sovereign state.

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