Syria Eyes 'Strategic' Ties With Ukraine as Kyiv Vows to Send More Food Aid
The Straits Times|January 01, 2025
Syria hopes for "strategic partnerships" with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Dec. 30, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in Damascus amid waning Russian influence.
Syria Eyes 'Strategic' Ties With Ukraine as Kyiv Vows to Send More Food Aid

Russia was a staunch ally of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad and has given him political asylum.

"There will be strategic partnerships between us and Ukraine on the political, economic and social levels and scientific partnerships," Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani told Ukraine's Mr. Andrii Sybiha.

"Certainly, the Syrian people and the Ukrainian people have the same experience and the same suffering that we endured over 14 years," he added, apparently drawing a parallel between Syria's brutal 2011 to 2024 civil war and Russia's 2014 seizure of Ukrainian territory culminating in its full-scale 2022 invasion.

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