In the name of reciprocity in Russian support in the war Bashar al-Assad waged against his opponents, Syrians have been enlisting for several weeks to go and fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine.
But it is not certain that the candidates are as numerous as Vladimir Putin affirmed on Friday, speaking of 16,000 men.
Contrary to what Josep Borrell, the head of diplomacy of the European Union, fears, Ukraine should not, in the short term at least, switch to a "Syrianization" of the conflict.
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“We have not yet detected any movement of Syrians to Ukraine,”
an American official said on Friday.
A few days earlier, however, the Pentagon spokesman confirmed
“the information from the
Wall Street Journal
, according to which
(the Russians)
are recruiting Syrian fighters to increase their forces in Ukraine.”
At the French headquarters in Paris, it is estimated that after deploying its 150,000 soldiers, prepositioned…
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