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Kremlin says Syrians can volunteer to fight for Russia in Ukraine
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Russian troops in the Syrian district of Daraa al-Balad in Syria's southern province of Daraa, on September 1, 2021. (Sam HARIRI / AFP)
MOSCOW — The Kremlin says fighters from Syria will be allowed to fight for Russia in Ukraine, after President Vladimir Putin backed a plan to send volunteers to battle there.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells reporters that Russia’s defense minister had said that “most of those who want and who asked (to fight) are citizens of Middle East countries and Syrians.”
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