{"id":1412622,"date":"2022-03-31T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412622"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:59:50","slug":"assads-syria-says-it-wants-to-enhance-cooperation-with-russian-separatists-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/assads-syria-says-it-wants-to-enhance-cooperation-with-russian-separatists-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Assad&#039;s Syria Says It Wants to &#039;Enhance Cooperation&#039; with Russian Separatists 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\">26<\/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%2Fassads-syria-says-it-wants-to-enhance-cooperation-with-russian-separatists-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=1412622&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--><p class=\"subheading\">The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is \u201cwilling to enhance\u201d an established relationship with the pro-Russian separatist groups in Eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region known as the Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s Republics (DPR and LPR), Syrian Ambassador to Moscow Riad Haddad <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1429523\">told<\/a> Russia\u2019s state-owned TASS news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Russian strongman Vladimir Putin recognized the two separatist organizations as sovereign \u201cstate\u201d governments in February, then announced the \u201cstates\u201d had requested Russian military assistance to fight Ukraine. Russian forces have been involved in a full-scale invasion of Ukraine since.<\/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>\u201cSyria cooperates with the two republics for the benefit of the peoples and is willing to enhance this cooperation if it meets the common interests, and the official recognition remains an issue requiring further examination and coordination between the two sides,\u201d TASS quoted Haddad as saying on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian ambassador recalled on Wednesday how, \u201cat the end of last year, during a visit of the Russian parliamentary delegation to Damascus, which also included the DPR representatives, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced his readiness to recognize the republic of Donbass, \u2018and it was agreed to start establishing relations with it.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/syria-supports-putins-recognition-ukraine-breakaway-regions-fm-2022-02-22\/\">told<\/a> reporters on February 22 Damascus supported Putin\u2019s decision on February 21 to formally <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1407581\">recognize<\/a> the independence of the DPR and LPR.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSyria supports President Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision to recognise the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk,\u201d Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said during an official visit to Moscow, as quoted by Syrian state media.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20463941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1229547554.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad via a video conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on November 9, 2020. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY\/SPUTNIK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The office of the Syrian presidency issued a statement on February 22 backing Mekdad\u2019s remarks earlier that same day. The press release said \u201cDamascus had already planned to recognize Donetsk as early as December 2021,\u201d Reuters reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyria affirms that it is ready to work on building relations with the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk and to strengthen them with regard to mutual interests,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1409329\">launched<\/a> an air and ground offensive in neighboring Ukraine on February 24, just 72 hours after the Kremlin announced plans to recognize the independence of the DPR and LPR.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/25\/syrias-assad-praises-russias-ukraine-invasion-as-correction\">expressed<\/a> his personal support of Russia\u2019s latest war with Ukraine during a telephone call with Putin on February 25. Al Jazeera reported the phone call citing an original account of the communication by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).<\/p>\n<p>SANA quoted Al-Assad as saying he praised Russia\u2019s military action toward Ukraine while \u201cdenouncing what he called Western \u2018hysteria\u2019 surrounding it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20463950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239022833.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20463950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239022833-1024x646-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A banner depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin and reading \u201cJustice Prevails\u201d, is displayed along a highway in the Syrian capital Damascus, on March 8, 2022. (LOUAI BESHARA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAl-Assad told Putin \u2026 what was happening in Ukraine was a \u2018correction of history and restoration of balance which was lost in the world after the breakup of the Soviet Union,&#8217;\u201d the news agency relayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyria stands with the Russian Federation based on its conviction that its position is correct and because confronting NATO expansionism is a right for Russia,\u201d Al-Assad added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamascus is a staunch ally of Moscow, which intervened in the Syrian civil war in 2015 by launching air attacks to support al-Assad\u2019s struggling forces against various rebel factions,\u201d Al Jazeera noted at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is \u201cwilling to enhance\u201d an established relationship with the pro-Russian separatist groups in Eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region known as the Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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-1412622","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\/1412622","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412622\/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=1412622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}