The Damascus regime condemned the US-France-Britain military operation against targets in Syria, saying it was "doomed to fail" and described it as a "gross violation of international law", according to the state-run SANA news agency. .
The actions that took place tonight in Syria will have consequences and all the responsibility belongs to the USA, the United Kingdom and France, said in a statement the ambassador of Russia in Washington, Anatoly Antonov.
"The worst fears have come true. Our warnings were not heeded. A pre-designed scenario applies. Again, we are threatened. "We have warned that such actions will not go unnoticed," Antonov said.
"All the responsibility for them lies with Washington, London and Paris," he added.
Syria came under attack just as it had a chance for peace, the Russian Foreign Ministry said today, hours after US, British and French forces pounded Damascus with airstrikes in response to a poison gas attack last week.
"The Syrian people were first tested by the 'Arab Spring', then by the Islamic State, now by smart American missiles. "The capital of a sovereign government, which has been trying for years to survive a terrorist attack, has come under attack," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.
"You have to be very abnormal to attack the Syrian capital just when it had a chance for a peaceful future," he added.