Russia is monitoring the situation in Syria closely. On Wednesday, December 11, the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, condemned Israel's strikes on the country and the deployment of its troops in the Golan region. “We would like the situation in the country to be stabilized as quickly as possible, one way or another”he said, while the Jewish state indicated that it had carried out around 480 strikes over the last forty-eight hours. According to the head of Israeli diplomacy, the country has “attacked strategic weapons systems, such as remnants of chemical weapons or long-range missiles and rockets, so that they do not fall into the hands of extremists”.
Furthermore, so that “no hostile force” does not establish itself on the border with Syria, Benjamin Netanyahu called on his army to “take control” of the Golan buffer zone. And the Israeli Prime Minister explained: “This region has been under the control of a buffer zone established under the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement for almost 50 years. This agreement (with Syria) has collapsed”. For the Kremlin, this deployment of the IDF “hardly contribute to the stabilization of the situation in an already destabilized Syria”, reported The World.
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Moscow is one of the main allies of Bashar al-Assad's regime, which has taken refuge in Russia. However, Dmitri Peskov indicated that the Kremlin was « and contact » with the new Syrian power, since they have “a base there and a diplomatic representation”. “And the issues related to securing these facilities are extremely important”he added.
