RUSSIAN RAGE: Putin Orders Warship The Admiral Grigorovich RFS-494 For Standoff With United States • Now The End Begins

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a furious response calling the American airstrike on Syria an ‘illegal act of aggression’

Vladimir Putin has today diverted a warship to protect the Syrian coast and vowed to bolster Bashar al-Assad’s missile defences against further US strikes as fears grew the crisis could topple into war between Russia and the West.

The Russian President has immediately sent his Admiral Grigorovich frigate – armed with cruise missiles and a self-defence system – from the Black Sea to dock in Syria later.

It will pass through the east Mediterranean waters where the USS Ross and USS Porter fired the 59 Tomahawk missiles that pounded Assad’s al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs in the early hours of Friday.

Putin today called it an ‘illegal act of aggression’ and also ripped up an agreement to avoid mid-air clashes between Russian and US fighter jets over Syria.

In the continuing fight back Russian or Syrian planes also bombed the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the scene of Tuesday’s horrific chemical gas attack where 80 died, witnesses in the rebel-held area claimed.



RUSSIAN RAGE: Putin Orders Warship The Admiral Grigorovich RFS-494 For Standoff With United States • Now The End Begins