US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday stated Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled his nation and his protector, Russia led by Vladimir Putin, “was not concerned about defending him any longer”.
Taking to social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote that Russia “misplaced all curiosity in Syria due to Ukraine, the place near 600,000 Russian troopers lay wounded or useless”.
“Russia and Iran are in a weakened state proper now, one due to Ukraine and a foul financial system, the opposite due to Israel and its combating success,” he added.
Trump says Russia deserted Syria’s President Bashar
Trump stated on Sunday that Russia’s abandonment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad led to his downfall, including Moscow by no means ought to have protected him within the first place after which misplaced curiosity due to a battle in Ukraine that by no means ought to have began.
“Assad is gone. He has fled his nation. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by (President) Vladimir Putin, was not concerned about defending him any longer,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“There was no motive for Russia to be there within the first place,” Trump wrote. “They misplaced all curiosity in Syria due to Ukraine … a battle that ought to by no means have began, and will go on endlessly.”
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Trump, who takes workplace on Jan. 20, added that Russia and Iran, Assad’s different essential backer, “are in a weakened state proper now, one due to Ukraine and a foul financial system, the opposite due to Israel and its combating success”.
Trump, who has stated he’ll search to halt the Ukraine battle quickly, met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday in Paris the place they had been each attending a ceremony to reopen Notre-Dame Cathedral.
He stated Russia and Ukraine had each suffered a whole lot of 1000’s of useless and wounded troops, and Ukraine had additionally misplaced many civilians. He added the Ukrainian chief “want to make a deal and cease the insanity … There must be a right away ceasefire and negotiations ought to start”.
“I do know Vladimir properly. This is his time to behave. China may help. The World is ready!”