Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow. His fall in Syria is also a defeat for the Kremlin. Official propaganda is desperately trying to limit the damage.
The Kremlin has a heart for deposed despots: in 2014, the Ukrainian Viktor Yanukovych fled from the angry citizens of his country. He had cash and gold furniture from his magnificent estate loaded into trucks and, with the help of Russian special forces, fled across Crimea to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Since then he has lived supposedly in the Moscow area, isolated from the Russian, Ukrainian and other public. According to the Russian press, old friends from Donbas visited him. Sometimes the embittered Ukrainian, who still believes he is the real president, allegedly travels to his second estate near Sochi to hunt on his lands.
Source: Stern
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