The Jerusalem Post reports: “Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Thursday that Russia’s nine-year intervention in Syria had been a failure but expressed concern about Israel’s military operations there since the toppling of his ally Bashar al-Assad.
Putin, addressing multiple questions on Syria at a marathon annual news conference, said Moscow had made proposals to the new rulers in Damascus to maintain Russia’s air and naval bases in the country.
In his first public comments on the subject, he said he had not yet met Assad since the former president fled to Moscow earlier this month, but that he planned to do so.
Putin played down the damage to Moscow from the fall of Assad, saying its military intervention in Syria since 2015 had helped prevent the country from becoming a ‘terrorist enclave.’
He said Israel was the ‘main beneficiary’ of the current situation…”
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