Russia's Pullout from Syria to Be Completed in 2-3 Days
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria will be completed within two-three days, Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said.
"I think that this matter will be completed very quickly. Strictly in keeping with the time frames determined by Supreme (Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin) and Defense Minister (Sergei Shoigu),” Bondarev told the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda in an interview on Wednesday.
“Within two to three days we will complete the assigned task,” he went on to say, according to a report by Sputnik News.
On Monday, Putin ordered the withdrawal of the main contingent of Russian forces from Syria, stating that they had accomplished their anti-terrorism mission.
Russia had conducted an aerial campaign against terrorists in Syria since September 30 at the request of the Arab country’s President Bashar al-Assad.
The deployment of Russian forces helped turn the tide of the war in favor of Syria’s legitimate government.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists, including the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, currently controlling parts of it, mostly in the east.
The Syrian conflict has killed at least 260,000 people, according to the UN, and more than half of Syria’s pre-war population of 22.4 million has been internally displaced or fled abroad.
