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International media sources are calling it one of the most consequential foreign visits to Damascus since the fall of Assad: a Ukrainian delegation led by Zelensky’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha met with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Damascus on Monday.
Syria’s newly appointed foreign minister under Jolani, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, told the Ukrainian FM that he hopes for a strong “strategic partnership” with the new Syria. Ukraine was reportedly key in helping the jihadist group HTS, a US-designated terror organization, storm across Syria in the days leading up to December 8 in the first place.
Kiev had provided drone and intelligence support for months to the Idlib-based militants, who are al-Qaeda linked. Ukrainian officials had previously openly boasted that they would assist in hitting Russian assets and bases in Syria, in order to bog its forces down there and distract the top Russian command from the …
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