Michael Fallon has been touring the broadcast studios this morning to send Russia a warning about its bombing campaign in Syria. On the Today programme, the Defence Secretary said Putin’s actions are complicating an already difficult situation:
‘What it does do is complicate an already difficult situation and make it very much more dangerous because these planes are not being co-ordinated with the rest of the campaign and more importantly than that, the strikes don’t seem to be for the most part strikes against Isil. They are strike against other groups who’ve been fighting Assad and designed to prop up the Assad regime, the dictatorship in Syria, which of course has been the cause of Isil in the first place. So what Russia is doing is extremely unhelpful as well as dangerous.’
Although Fallon is talking defiantly, he said Britain would not be sending its own jets to the region, as we need to ‘deconflict the aircraft space over Syria’. Instead, he told
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