Leader of Russia-backed Crimea to visit Syria

FAN Editor 6 years ago
FILE PHOTO: Head of Crimea Aksyonov waits before annual state of nation address attended by Russian President Putin at Kremlin in Moscow
FILE PHOTO: Sergei Aksyonov, the head of Crimea, waits before an annual state of the nation address attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

October 15, 2018

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The leader of Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, is to visit Syria on Monday, the pro-government newspaper al-Watan said.

Russia-backed Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov will visit Damascus for two days.

Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s seven-year long conflict. The leaders of two other Russia-backed breakaway regions, Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia, also visited Damascus this year.

Crimea has been under Western sanctions since it was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.

(Reporting by Lisa Barrington, editing by Louise Heavens)

Free America Network Articles

Leave a Reply

Next Post

Al Arabiya op-ed warns of oil spike and 'economic disaster' if US sanctions Saudi Arabia

Mon Oct 15 , 2018
Oil prices could surge to all-time highs if the U.S. imposes economic sanctions against Saudi Arabia, according to an opinion piece written by the general manager of Saudi Arabia-based Al Arabiya television. The warning from Al Arabiya’s Turki Aldakhil comes amid heightened tensions between Saudi Arabia and the West, after […]

You May Like