[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Mark, if it had been just the UK doing the bombing then Russia could have construed it as a retaliation for Salisbury...and yet that is a stretch, because it was not Syria who smeared a nerve agent on door handles(interestingly, the agent has a signature that is alleged to come from a laboratory in southern Russia).
The fact that France and the US were also involved sends out the message that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable to the global community.

Russia is complicit in this use of chemical weapons, because if they had anything about them they would be reining in Assad...or threatening to remove their support.
But that is not happening, in fact Russia is being inflammatory in offering to provide missile systems to the Syrian government.