(VOVworld) – Speaker Valentina Matvienko of the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia's parliament, said Sunday that Russia does not want the scenario of the US invasion of Iraq to occur in Syria and regards attempts to invent pretexts for invasions of sovereign states as unacceptable.
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Speaker Valentina Matvienko of the Russian Federation Council
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She called the US missile strike in Syria a serious violation of international law and an act of aggression against a sovereign state.
The Syrian army on Sunday regained the strategic town of Soran near the city of Hama in the central part of western Syria with an assault backed by heavy Russian air strikes. The rebels still hold the strategic town of Morek, in Hama province.