Bloomberg quoted the Kremlin as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin requested an investigation into the failure of his intelligence to uncover the threat that toppled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The Kremlin revealed that Russian intelligence agents organized Assad’s exit from Damascus, adding that intelligence took Assad out of Syria via plane from a Russian military base.

The Kremlin also revealed that Russia disabled radar systems over Syria to prevent detection of the plane carrying Assad.

On November 27, armed opposition groups in Syria launched a large-scale attack on Syrian army positions in the Aleppo and Idlib governorates, and on December 8 entered the capital, Damascus, and the head of the Syrian government at the time, Muhammad Ghazi al-Jalali, expressed his readiness to transfer power in the country peacefully. .

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Bashar al-Assad resigned from his position as president of Syria and left the country, and gave his instructions for a peaceful transfer of power, indicating that Russia did not participate in these negotiations. A source in the Kremlin confirmed to TASS on December 8 that al-Assad and his family members They arrived in Moscow and Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds.