By The Moscow Times | Created at 2024-12-15 17:50:19 | Updated at 2024-12-15 20:57:57
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Russia's Foreign Ministry said it had evacuated some of its diplomatic staff from Syria on Sunday, a week after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
"On December 15, the withdrawal of part of the personnel of the Russian [diplomatic] representation in Damascus was carried out by a special flight of the Russian Air Force from the Khmeimim airbase" in Syria, the ministry's crisis situations department said on Telegram.
This story is being updated.
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