Zakharova: Reuters should deny the alleged report about Assad’s death
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatudi, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, referring to the alleged Reuters report about the death of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an air crash, said that this news agency should deny its report.
Assad left Syria in the early hours of Sunday morning at the same time as the terrorist groups Hayat Tahrir al-Sham arrived in Damascus accompanied by the US-backed militia known as the Free Syrian Army. The international flight tracking website “FlightRadar” claimed that the plane carrying Assad and heading towards the Mediterranean Sea suddenly changed direction during the flight and then disappeared from the radar.
Shortly after, Reuters, citing this website and quoting two Syrian sources, claimed that “Assad was most likely killed in a plane crash because the reason for the sudden change of direction and the disappearance of the plane was a It is a mystery.”
After TASS news agency confirmed that the plane carrying Assad landed in Moscow and received humanitarian asylum from Russia, Zakharova criticized Reuters through her Telegram channel for publishing “false” news. placed.
Zakharova raised this question: My question is, does Reuters, who published the report of Assad’s death with a “very high” probability, deny himself?
Although Reuters did not respond to Zakharova’s statement, it rewrote the report and deleted the paragraph related to the alleged air crash and Assad’s death.
Mikhail Ulyanov, the permanent representative of Russia in international organizations based in Vienna, also confirmed that Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family are staying in Moscow.
Ulianov wrote in his user account on the X social network: Urgent; Assad and his family are in Moscow. Russia does not betray its friends in difficult situations. This is the difference between Russia and America.
