If you had bothered to listen to the announcement or read the transcript, Trump pointed out contributions made by both the Kurds and the intel community along with others who were instrumental to the missions success.
The Russians also have military assets in the area that had to be alerted to the raid in order to prevent possible engagement of the US forces. (done all the time)
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I heard similar tonight, they flew over Russian airspace to get to the location. That's all that was said, they didn't elaborate on whether it was actually over Russia or over Russian troops in Syria.