Although still available in Google Cache, LA Times apparently deleted Putin remarks on Patriot Missile Systems!On the Russian stance over the deployment of Patriot missiles in Turkey, and if there are guarantees that Syria will not use “nuclear weapon”, President Putin added “is there any nuclear weapons in Syria.. maybe there was a mistake in the translation.. Syria is not a nuclear country.” “Regarding Patriot missiles, I want to say that they are not of ideal systems, they are not of the best systems for the air defense in the world, but they are from the old generation,” Putin said, adding that Russia has reservations on the situation on the Syrian-Turkish borders and the deployment of Patriot missiles, but it calls for the self-restraint as this leads to escalation in the stance. He considered that the fall of mortars on the Turkish lands constitutes a new moral burden on Turkey and Syria, saying ‘Syria will not attack turkey.. we will contact with the Turks to settle this issue.”LA Times
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