The air strike inflicted on Monday night, April 9, at Tifor airfield in Syria is a very dangerous signal. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. He called for an urgent and collective understanding of what had happened. "Many messages about who flew, who did not fly. In Washington, at least for the time being, they denied that these attacks were inflicted by the Americans or any member of their coalition, "Lavrov said.. If you believe the US statements, it turns out that in the region there are new unknown players ready for aggression and violence. These players, in the opinion of the head of the department, "invited themselves there under the pretext of destroying the IG (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), fighting terrorism". But in addition to this goal, they also found other, "both announced and carefully concealed" goals, the main one of which is to gain a foothold in Syria for a long time. A similar goal, incidentally, and the American coalition and the US itself, experts say. Meanwhile, the situation in Syria is becoming too tense, Lavrov stressed.. "With blows, of course, it is necessary to understand. This is a very dangerous development of events. I hope that at least the military, and the US, and those countries that are part of the United States in the same coalition understand this, "RIA Novosti quotes the minister. On Monday, April 9, the Syrian T-4 airbase in the eastern Homs province near Palmyra was subjected to a massive air strike. Local air defense forces managed to shoot down 8 missiles, but some bombs reached the target. As a result, several people were killed and wounded.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Israel was involved in the air strike. At least two Israeli F-15s, not crossing the airspace of Syria, fired several missiles at the T-4 base. Official comments from Tel Aviv have not yet been received.

However, it is known that in February 2018. Israeli forces have already bombed the T-4 base. Then they explained their actions by suspicions that Iranian drones take off from the Syrian airfield.