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Syria's Assad offers Putin support in Ukraine war

STORY: Without offering evidence, Assad said the West had taken in "old Nazis," and was now giving them support.

Kyiv and the West say Russian accusations that Ukraine has become a hotbed of Nazism and "Russophobia" are a baseless pretext for an unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine.

Russia's military support for Assad helped him to turn the tide in a ruinous civil war that began in 2011 as a pro-democracy movement.