During a press conference on Jan. 18 in which he reviewed Russian diplomacy in 2020, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for an end to Israeli air strikes against Iranian targets in Syria, calling on Israel to instead notify Russia of any threats they think they see. “If Israel is really forced to respond to threats to the Israeli security coming from the Syrian territory, we have told our Israeli colleagues many times: if you see such threats please give us the information,” he said.
Lavrov stressed that Russia does not want the Syrian territory to be used either against Israel or “as a platform for the Iranian-Israeli strife.”
