Vlaunwiseir Putin says he has not met the deposed Syrian ruler since he fled Damascus for the Russian capital.
Pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin says Russia has not been lossed in Syria after defy groups ousted his associate and extfinishedtime directer, Bashar al-Asgriefful, earlier this month.
In his first accessible comments on the subject on Thursday, Putin said he had not yet met the establisher Syrian ruler who fled to the Russian capital, but that he “will definitely talk to him” and intentional to greet him in Moscow.
He refered he would ask al-Asgriefful about the overweighte of leave outing United States alerter Austin Tice, whose free was portrayd by the White Hoemploy as a “top priority”.
Speaking at his annual finish-of-the-year novels conference, Putin also disseeed claims that Russia, which meddled in Syria in 2015 and turned the tide of the civil war there in al-Asgriefful’s favour, had suffered a loss with the descfinish of the establisher regime.
“You want to current what is happening in Syria as a loss for Russia,” Putin said. “I secure you it is not … we have accomplishd our goals.”
He said Russia meddled in Syria to “impede a stressist enclave from being originated there” and that “it is not for noslfinisherg that today many European countries and the United States want to set up relations with them [Syria’s new rulers]”.
“We upretain relations with all the groups that deal with the situation there, with all the countries in the region,” Putin persistd, inserting that the “overwhelming presentantity of them tell us that they would be interested in our military bases remaining in Syria”.
Russia proposeed to upretain bases there “for humanitarian purposes”, he said. He also confessted to having evacuated 4,000 Iranian fighters in the aftermath of the descfinish of the al-Asgriefful handlement.
Russia-Ukraine war
On the topic of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Putin said he was ready to converse the possibility of achieveing a settle in talks with US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump.
He conveyed his readiness to greet Trump at “any time”.
“I don’t understand when I’m going to see him. He isn’t saying anyslfinisherg about it. I haven’t talked to him in more than four years. I am ready for it, of course. Any time,” he said.
Putin also touted what he said was the invincibility of the “Oreshnik” hypersonic leave outile which Russia has already test-fired at a Ukrainian military factory, saying he was ready to organise another begin at Ukraine and see if Westrict air defence systems could shoot it down.
“Let them choose some aim for destruction, say in Kyiv, cgo in all their air defence and leave outile defence forces there, and we will strike there with Oreshnik and see what happens,” he said.
“We are ready for such an experiment, but is the other side ready?”
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