MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia, which has abided by some self-restrictions in its military-technological cooperation with Syria and avoided selling offensive weapons to Syria until lately, may stop doing this in response to the EU's decision to lift an embargo on arms supplies to the Syrian opposition, Lt. Gen. Leonid Sazhin, a military expert, told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday.
"This is normal logic of the developments. The matter may imply not only the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. Decisions may be very unexpected, including supplies of Iskander missiles to Syria," he said.
Earlier Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a press conference in Helsinki that Russia is disappointed by the EU's decision to lift an embargo on supplies of weapons to the Syrian opposition.
"Any decision has two sides. If one side lifts some restrictions, the other side may consider itself not bound to honor commitments it undertook earlier," Shoigu said.
Up to the present, Russia has sold only defensive weapons to Syria under contracts which had been concluded ealier, Sazhin said.
He recalled that Damascus had earlier expressed interest in buying Yak-130 combat trainer aircraft, armored vehicles, multiple rocket launchers, Iskander-E tactical missiles, and other weapons.