Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
They were not notified all that far in advance. Time enough to get personnel out of the line of fire, but little else.
They knew it might be coming, if the Syrians hit the town because it was a weapons lab then the Russains would have known.

It takes about ten seconds to say, "No, comrade, it was a rebel cache of toxic gas!"

the fact Russia hasn't claimed they tried to stop the attack tells me that exchange never happened.