Russia boasts of practising shooting down missiles as US considers air strike on Syria

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Russia boasts of practising shooting down missiles as US considers air strike on Syria

has boasted it is practising shooting down missiles as the country's parliamentary hardliners demanded a military response to any US air strike on The Russian defence ministry said that naval jets from its Pacific fleet had conducted exercises to “intercept and destroy a low-flying long-range cruise missile”. Two former Russian officers turned politicians called on the Kremlin to use military force should Meanwhile Mr Trump, the US president, was under growing pressure from his own senators to follow through on tough rhetoric over the ...

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