In 2013, Russia prevented the US attack on Syria, the consequences of which would have been disastrous, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Tass. According to Lavrov, Moscow convinced the Syrian President Bashar Assad to refuse from chemical weapons. "Even a thought of where those anti-aircraft missile complexes and other “ordinary “ammunition can appear is terrible. At the same time, it is more terrible to think about where the stocks mass destruction weapons are," said Sergei Lavrov. On the other hand , according to the minister , no one knows which terrorist groups  have the anti-aircraft missile complexes, robbed from the Libyan military reserves, and when they will use them.