Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russia was working to build a dialogue with the new administration in Syria, while Moscow seeks to ensure the future of its military bases there.
Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, this week for the first conversations with the new Syria leaders since President Bashar Al-Assad, Moscow’s ally, was deposed late last year. Assad and members of his family fled to Moscow.
Separately, a Syrian source familiar with the conversations with Moscow told Reuters that Syria’s actually leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa had asked Russia to deliver Assad and his close advisors during Bogdanov discussions.
Kremlin’s spokesman refused to comment on whether this demand had been raised.