Russia is prepared to shoot down any US plane coordinating UAV attacks on its Hmeimim Air Base near Latakia, Syria, according to Vladimir Shamanov, head of the lower parliamentary house's defense committee, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Troops.

Shamanov's remarks followed an announcement by the Russian Defense Ministry that a US Posiedon-8 reconnaissance plan coordinated a drone strike attack on the airbase.

According to reports the airbase has further come under waves of attacks by small armed drones, which appear to be increasingly sophisticated.

On October 25th, Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said that a US reconnaissance aircraft had coordinated the attack on the Russian airbase in January 2018.