The images of Kharkiv bombings and maroupol headquarters revive the memory of the war conducted in Syria by Russia in support of Bashar al-Assad.
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The images of Kharkiv subjected to a fire deluge, from the besieged maroussol, civilians seeking to flee under the threat of the bombing: the Russian invasion in Ukraine revives, among the Syrians, the memories of the war that Moscow was conducted In their country from 2015, in support of the regime of Bachar Al-Assad. “The seats, the humanitarian corridors, the peace negotiations carried out to the sound of Canons: these are the same methods that have suffered during the six months of Headquarters in Aleppo, the same strategies to save time, inflicting the most Damages possible to civilians and infrastructure, and charge the strong price for those who defend themselves, “accuses Dr. Hamza al-Khatib, evacuated from Aleppo on December 21, 2016, with the last civilians and rebel fighters.
The Martyrdom of Aleppo, the economic capital of North Syrian, wears forever Russian footprint, like Grozny, in Chechnya, before it. From April to December 2016, the east neighborhoods of the city, in the hands of the Syrian opposition since 2012, and their 300,000 inhabitants have been subjected to a ruthless seat and indiscriminate bombing of Russian aviation to support the progress. Proregal forces and obtain the capitulation of the rebels. According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, 2,872 civilians were killed, including 330 women and 630 children, and more than 16,000 wounded in six months. The United Nations has listed 33,000 severely damaged structures in the city, mostly in the east.
Aleppo has become the symbol of the devastating campaign led by Moscow to save, at all costs, President Bashar Al-Assad. Under cover of combating the Islamic State Organization (EI) and terrorism, Russia intervened in September 2015 at the appeal of the Syrian dictator who, four years after the beginning of the revolution, had lost the control of whole sections from the country. The Syrian campaign was also for Vladimir Putin, scalded by Western support to “Arab Spring” and the intervention in Libya in 2011, the perfect opportunity to take up in the Middle East and to offer its army a ground of military training.
In six years of war, more than 63,000 soldiers were engaged in Syria, from the Air Base of Hmeimim and the Naval Base of the Port of Tartous, and nearly 320 modern armaments tested, according to Moscow. Mercenaries of the Wagner private security company have been deployed with the Loyalist Forces and Shiite Pro-Iranian militia. “Syria has allowed them to conduct tests in real conditions, modernize their doctrine and tactico-operational application. It has been important in terms of feedback”, Analysis Mathieu Boulègue, Associate Researcher at the Chatham House Reflection Center .
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