Juan Pablo Duch

Correspondent

La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 17, 2024, p. 22

Moscow. Nine days after leaving power in Syria, Bashar al Assad issued a statement from Moscow – titled Explanation of the circumstances that led me to leave Syria and distributed through Telegram–, in which he assures that he did not betray his people, and pointed out that since terrorist forces infiltrated Damascusand no longer viable options Moscow ordered the base command for my immediate evacuation to Russia.

The person who never abandoned the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon, nor betrayed the allies who supported him, cannot be the same person who renounces his own people or betrays his army and the nation to which he belongs.reflects Al Assad.

And explains that During the recent events I did not once consider the possibility of resigning or requesting political asylum nor did I receive any proposal in this regard from any party or individual. The only plan of action was to continue fighting against the terrorist massacre.

ensures that As terrorist forces infiltrated Damascus I moved to Latakia, in coordination with our Russian allies, to oversee combat operationsbut upon arriving at Hmeimin airfield on the morning of December 8 It became clear that our forces had completely withdrawn from all battle fronts and that the army’s last position had fallen..

He points out that, with no viable options to get out of there, Moscow ordered the base command for my immediate evacuation to Russia on the afternoon of Sunday, December 8.one day after the fall of Damascus.