Russia warns Israel against airstrikes near its airbase in Syria

Russia warns Israel against carrying out airstrikes near one of its airbases in Syria, saying such attacks put the lives of its soldiers in danger. 

Alexander Lavrentiev, President Vladimir Putin's special envoy in the Near East, said Wednesday that the Israeli regime’s military “actually carried out an air strike in the immediate vicinity of Hmeimim.”

Lavrentiev said that Moscow has notified Tel Aviv that “such acts that put Russian military lives in danger over there are unacceptable.”

"That is why we hope that this incident in October will not be repeated,” Lavrentiev said referring to an Israeli aerial strike that hit the port city of Latakia in mid-October.

Latakia, and in particular its airport, is close to the town of Hmeimim that hosts a Russian air base.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the Western-backed war in 2011.

Damascus has repeatedly called on the United Nations to hold the Tel Aviv regime accountable for the attacks on its soil.

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