Putin says Russia isn’t weakened by Syria setback

What occurred

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Thursday that Russia was successful in Ukraine and wasn’t “weakened” by the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a key ally. Russia was negotiating with all main teams in Syria to retain its key naval and air bases within the nation, Putin stated in his marathon end-of-year press convention. However Moscow has been seen transferring a whole lot of its army gear from Syria to its different Center East “army foothold” in jap Libya, The New York Occasions stated.

Who stated what

“You need to current all the pieces that’s taking place in Syria as kind of Russia’s defeat — relaxation assured that’s not so,” Putin instructed reporters. However Assad’s ouster “undermined Russia’s status and its ambition to be a significant energy dealer within the Center East,” The Wall Avenue Journal stated, and it “tarnishes Putin’s picture as a dependable world chief” and bulwark in opposition to the West.

What subsequent?

Putin provided to barter an finish to his conflict with Ukraine, presumably alongside President-elect Donald Trump. However he additionally boasted it could be “attention-grabbing” to stage “a type of high-tech duel” pitting Russia’s new Oreshnik nuclear-capable ballistic missile in opposition to Western air defenses at a predetermined goal, “for instance in Kyiv.” “Individuals are dying, and he thinks it is ‘attention-grabbing,'” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on X. “Dumbass.”