 The US is worried. Wagner sends Russian pantheon missile systems to Hezbollah. The US has intelligence that the Wagner Group, the Russian paramilitary group, may provide an air defense system to Hezbollah. The Wall Street Journal reported this. It is noted that Wagner Group, which operates in Syria, has been tasked with carrying out the delivery of the surface to air SA-22 missile system. According to CNN, the US has intelligence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to provide the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with a Russian-made missile defense system, according to two people familiar with the intelligence. One of the sources said the US has been monitoring recent movement of the system, which is also known as a pantheon. The other source said the US assessment was based partly on intelligence obtained about discussions among Assad, Wagner and Hezbollah about the delivery of the system. The SA-22 is a short-range truck-mounted air defense battery capable of taking down aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. A number of SA-22s are thought to have been deployed in Syria and some were reportedly destroyed in Israeli strikes in years past. Israel has long carried out strikes in Syria aimed at preventing advanced weapons from being transferred to Hezbollah and is believed to have stepped up efforts recently as Iranian proxy groups ramp up attacks from Lebanon and elsewhere. Wagner and Hezbollah fighters both have a presence in Syria where they were deployed to bolster Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad during the country's civil war. Earlier, Russia condemned Israeli airstrikes on Syria as unacceptable, warning that they risk triggering a spillover of the Israel Hamas war into the wider regional conflict. Moscow, however, ignored the Syrian fire toward Israel that preceded them. Russia hosted Hamas leaders in Moscow earlier this month, sparking outrage by the Israeli government.