{"id":1328529,"date":"2022-02-22T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1328529"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:08:17","slug":"syrias-assad-ready-to-recognize-russian-separatist-states-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/syrias-assad-ready-to-recognize-russian-separatist-states-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#039;s Assad &#039;Ready to Recognize&#039; Russian Separatist States in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsyrias-assad-ready-to-recognize-russian-separatist-states-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1328529&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/03\/Assad-Putin-Mikhail-Klimentyev-Kremlin-Pool-Photo-via-AP.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, which remains in power almost exclusively thanks to Russian intervention during a decade-long civil war,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/22\/syria-backs-russian-recognition-east-ukraine-breakaway-regions\">expressed<\/a> \u201csupport\u201d for Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision on Monday to recognize Russian proxy groups in Ukraine as sovereign \u201cstates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin announced that he would recognize the independence of two Russian separatist regions in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbass region \u2014 the \u201cDonetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR)\u201d and the \u201cLuhansk People\u2019s Republic (LNR)\u201d and ordered Russian troops into those areas of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn comments carried by the state-run Syrian News Agency, Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad was quoted as saying that the government of President Bashar al-Assad \u2018will cooperate\u2019 with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People\u2019s Republic (LNR),\u201d Al Jazeera relayed on February 22.<\/p>\n<p>Mekdad\u2019s comment followed hours after Dmitry Sablin \u2014 a Russian government official in charge of Moscow\u2019s relations with Damascus \u2014 told RIA Novosti \u201che had spoken to al-Assad about the situation in eastern Ukraine,\u201d Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [al-Assad] said Syria was ready to recognize them [the DPR and LNR] just as it recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia,\u201d Sablin told the Russian state-owned news outlet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sablin referred to breakaway Georgian regions <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1007058\">recognized<\/a> by Russia as separatist republics during the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. Much like this week\u2019s events, Putin at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/Russia_Recognizes_Abkhazia_South_Ossetia\/1193932.html\">declared<\/a> Russian puppet entities in those regions their own states and intervened to strip then-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of power in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian Foreign Minister Mekdad made remarks in support of Moscow on Tuesday during an appearance at the Valdai Discussion Club, which is a Russian-led think tank and dialogue forum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g20-insights.org\/think_tanks\/valdai-discussion-club\/\">held<\/a> annually. The Valdai Club\u2019s 11th Middle East Conference \u2014 titled \u201cRussia and the Middle East: Strategic Rapprochement and Interweaving of Interests\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ValdaiClub\/\">launched<\/a> on February 21 in Moscow and will last through February 22.<\/p>\n<p>Mekdad <a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=264213\">met<\/a> with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on February 21 as the two ministers headlined the latest Valdai Club conference, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.\u00a0The Syrian foreign minister specifically mentioned Ukraine during a joint press conference alongside Lavrov on Monday, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The campaign of hypocrisy, lies and deception waged by the West is the same as the campaign it launched against Syria. Western countries encourage Ukraine to launch attacks on Russia, supply it with weapons, establish bases, violate international agreements on non-proliferation, continue to work on expanding NATO, and threaten the Russian Federation and other countries in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Continuing, Mekdad expressed \u201csupport\u201d for Putin\u2019s actions in Ukraine:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We affirm our support to the stances expressed by President Vladimir Putin and the credibility through which he dealt with those issues of basic commitment to Russia\u2019s international obligations, and we condemn all attempts of mobilization, attack, lies or media terrorism practiced by western countries during the latest weeks to defame the image of the Russian Federation and its constructive stances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/regnum.ru\/news\/polit\/3513128.html\">announced<\/a> plans on February 21 to formally <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1407581\">recognize<\/a> the independence of the DPR and LNR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, which remains in power almost exclusively thanks to Russian intervention during a decade-long civil war,\u00a0expressed \u201csupport\u201d for Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision on Monday to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}