Russia warned the United States about taking direct action against the Syrian regime, saying it would cause negative consequences across the Middle East, Russia's state-run Sputnik news agency reported Saturday.
Meanwhile,
intense fighting continued in the besieged Syrian city Aleppo on
Saturday, with one of the main hospitals bombed by Russian-backed Syrian
forces.
Sputnik reported
that Russian's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, "If
the US launches a direct aggression against Damascus and the Syrian
army, it will lead to terrible, tectonic shifts not only on the
territory of this country but also in the region in general."
She
said the United States risked creating a power vacuum in Syria were it
to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Such a power vacuum would be
filled by "terrorists of all sorts," Sputnik reported.