Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country is not going to go to war with anyone, and that it would seek to deter any other country that considered an armed conflict with Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country is not going to go to war with anyone, and that it would seek to deter any other country that considered an armed conflict with it.
"We are not going to fight against anyone. We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us," Putin told Russian news agency TASS in an interview published Monday. Government forces under President Bashar al-Assad want to wrestle the region, which borders Turkey, back from Syrian rebel groups and Jihadist forces. Idlib is seen as the last major province still largely under rebel control.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart have been communicating regularly over the escalating tensions, with both stressing
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