Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, which has granted them asylum, according to Russian agencies

Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, which has granted them asylum, according to Russian agencies
Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, which has granted them asylum, according to Russian agencies

“Russia has always been in favor of a political solution to the Syrian crisis. We start from the need to resume negotiations under the auspices of the UN,” said this source in the Kremlin.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, Russian news agencies announced Sunday evening, citing a Kremlin source, after the fall of the Syrian authorities caused by a lightning offensive by rebel groups led by radical Islamists . “Assad and his family members have arrived in Moscow. Russia, based on humanitarian considerations, granted them asylum”this source told the public news agencies TASS and Ria Novosti. In a speech on Sunday evening, Joe Biden confirmed that Bashar al-Assad was in Moscow and should “be accountable”.

This source also indicated that Russia is already in contact with the Syrian rebels and that their leaders have “guaranteed the security of Russian military bases and diplomatic institutions on the territory of Syria”. She indicated that Moscow wants “the continuation of political dialogue in the interests of the Syrian people and the development of bilateral relations between Russia and Syria”. “Russia has always been in favor of a political solution to the Syrian crisis. We start from the need to resume negotiations under the auspices of the UN”further affirmed this source in the Kremlin.

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Russia’s deputy representative to the UN, Dmitri Polianski, announced that Moscow had requested an emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria for Monday afternoon. He estimated on Telegram that “the depth and consequences (of the events in Syria) for this country and the entire region have not yet been measured”. Russia, Bashar al-Assad’s main ally with Iran and which became militarily involved in the Syrian conflict in 2015, has a naval base in Tartous and a military airfield in Hmeimim.

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