urgent.. "Lion" He talks for the first time about his last hours in Syria and how he left?

Former Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, said in his first statements since the fall of his regime, that he did not leave Syria as he had planned, and “did not ask for asylum.” In Russia.

In a statement published at the expense of the Presidency of the Republic, attributed to Al-Assad, who fled to Syria during the advance of the armed militias and their entry into Damascus on December 8th.

It was stated in the introduction to the statement: " After several failed attempts to publish this statement through Arab and foreign media, the only available way was to publish it on the social media platforms of the former Presidency of the Republic.”

The former head of the Syrian regime surprised the world with his quick escape to Russia, where the Armed militia factions took control of the reins of power. 

After speculation about his fate for several hours after the opposition took control of Damascus, Moscow officially confirmed that it had granted Assad the right to humanitarian asylum.

Assad said: " I did not leave the country in a planned manner as was rumored, and I did not leave in the last hours of the fighting,” noting that he remained in Damascus “carrying out his responsibilities until the early hours of the morning.” “Sunday.”

He added: “With the expansion of terrorism inside Damascus, I moved, in coordination with Russian friends, to Latakia to monitor the hostilities there, and after moving to Hmeimim, it became clear that the forces had withdrawn from all the front lines and the last army positions had fallen.”

He continued: “With the deterioration of the situation on the ground in that region and the escalation of the attack on the Russian base itself using drones, and in light of the impossibility of leaving the base in any direction, Moscow asked the base’s leadership to work on Immediate evacuation to Russia on Sunday evening, that is, the day after the fall of Damascus, the fall of the last military sites and the subsequent paralysis of the rest of the state institutions.”

He saw that “in those events, neither he nor any party raised the issue of asylum or resignation.” The option presented was to continue fighting.

After his escape,  A video clip spread on social media platforms  By Assad, it includes statements he made about a year after the outbreak of the protest movement in 2011, in which he attempts to define the “traitor” Who leaves his country in the middle of a crisis that many considered a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Al-Assad added in his new statement: “In this context, I affirm that he who refused from the first day of the war to trade the salvation of his country for his personal salvation, or to bargain at the expense of his country&rdquo ;, with various offers and temptations, he is the same one who stood with the officers and soldiers of his army on the first lines of fire.

The armed militias led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham were able to "Designated as a terrorist organization in the United States" It is led by Ahmed Al-Sharaa, “Abu Muhammad Al-Julani,” to seize power in Syria and end 5 decades of Assad family rule. 

After the fall of Assad’s rule and his departure from Damascus, activists and lawyers began an “arduous journey” In search of the enormous wealth that they believe has been accumulated by the Assad family and its allies during the half-century since Hafez al-Assad, who came to power in 1970.

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