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Turkey wants to create a 30-kilometer “security zone” along the Syrian border to protect itself from attacks by Kurdish militants. This operation will also affect Russian interests.
However, for the Kremlin dictator, the Syrian issue is not the time. Russian opposition journalist Igor Yakovenko told Channel 24 about this.
I have no doubt that Ukrainian history is now a priority for Putin, he said.
That is, of course, Syria is important for the Kremlin head. However, for him, this country was only a training ground.
“Therefore, I think that he (Putin – Channel 24) can make certain concessions in Syria. That is, he can leave it at the mercy of Iran, Erdogan, let them figure it out. For him, the issue of Ukraine is now number one. Therefore, he Erdogan will have something to give up in order to concentrate his forces on the main direction for him,” Yakovenko believes.
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Putin urgently overturns troops from Syria
Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, said that the Russian authorities are overturning troops from Syria to Ukraine, citing the Israeli media.
“Moscow is losing ground in the region in order to throw some firewood (which does not solve anything) into the muzzle of the war in Ukraine. Still going according to plan, right? Well, the plan was great. Reliable as a Swiss watch,” Podolyak wrote.
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