Washington – The uprising against the Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria has succeeded in changing the power in Syria today. Bashar’s power has been overthrown, the rebels have won. Reportedly, the Syrian rebels received drone assistance from Ukraine, the country of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Reported by Reuters, Thursday (12/12/2024), this news was conveyed by a well-known press media report from the United States (US), the Washington Post.
The Syrian rebels, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), reportedly received 150 drones and other covert support from Ukrainian intelligence operators last month, or a few weeks before the rebels succeeded in ousting Bashar from the presidency.
The Washington Post report is based on anonymous sources. They said there was a shipment of 20 drone operators sent by Ukraine to Syria. The 150 drones sent by Ukraine are drones with a ‘first person view’ feature.
As is known, Ukraine is an enemy of Russia. The two countries are still at war until now. Russia is a supporter of the Bashar Al Assad regime.
The Russian military tried to help Assad’s forces launch airstrikes against the rebels earlier this month (although the rebels eventually won). However, Russian war bloggers have warned that the overthrow of Assad not only threatens two strategically important Russian military facilities in Syria, but also threatens Moscow’s presence in the Middle East.
The Russian foreign ministry previously said, without providing evidence, that the rebels had received drones from Ukraine and training on how to operate them, an allegation the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry flatly denied at the time.
The formerly Al Qaeda-affiliated HTS has moved to form an interim government after Syria’s 13-year civil war divided the country amid one of the Middle East’s most repressive ‘police states’ under the Assad family’s five-decade rule.
Ukraine reportedly provided hundreds of drones to Syrian rebels
