Trump: Bashar Assad fled because he didn't get help from Russia

Commenting on the situation in the Middle Eastern country, the elected president of the USA, Donald Trump, commented that the deposed leader of the Syrian regime, Bashar Assad, left the country because he could not get help from Russia. According to him, Russia lost interest in Syria because of Ukraine.

The deposed leader of the Syrian regime, Bashar Assad, left the country because he could not get help from Russia.

President-elect Donald Trump said this while commenting on the situation in the Middle East country.

"Assad is gone. He fled his country. Russia, led by his protector Vladimir Putin, is no longer interested in protecting him," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

He said that Russia lost interest in Syria because of Ukraine.

The 61-year bloody rule of the Baath Party, which came to power in Syria in 1963, has collapsed. With the entry of anti-regime armed forces into the capital Damascus, the rule of the Bashar Assad regime and the Ba'ath Party ended.

Events in Syria

On November 27, clashes began between the forces of the Assad regime and armed groups against the government in the western part of Aleppo province in the north of Syria.

On November 30, anti-government groups recaptured a large part of central Aleppo from regime forces and on the same day took control of the entire territory of Idlib.

On December 5, factions recaptured the center of Hama from regime forces after heavy clashes.

Anti-regime groups have taken control of a number of settlements in the strategically important Homs province leading to the capital Damascus and continued their attacks.

The center of Tell Rifat was freed from terrorists by the Syrian National Army on December 1 in the villages of Aleppo province during the "Freedom Dawn" operation.