"I did not leave Damascus in a planned manner, but rather stayed until the early morning hours of December 8.

I moved to the Hmeimim base to continue my work from there, and with the fall of the last army positions, Moscow asked the base leadership to immediately "evacuate" to Moscow on the evening of December 8."

"We are not fighting the Ukrainian people, but the neo-Nazi regime that has seized power in Kyiv."

"The next crime of the Kyiv regime will be lowering the age of conscription in Ukraine to 18 years.

This is exactly a crime, because if you reduce it to 14, as in Hitler's Germany, if you create a Hitlerland, the situation on the battlefield will not change."

"People on the streets of Ukraine are being caught like stray dogs - and driven under bullets."