Russia has evacuated at least 400 soldiers from the Damascus region in recent days in co-ordination with the main rebel faction that toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an official from the group said.
The soldiers had been stationed at the Syrian Army’s notorious Fourth Division headquarters in Qudsayya, a suburb of the capital, Kamal Lababidi, a member of the political bureau of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, told the Financial Times in an interview.
Russian soldiers stationed at the embassy in Damascus had also left over the past week and conversations were ongoing to evacuate more soldiers across the country, said Lababidi, who uses a long-held pseudonym.
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