Putin defends Russia's Syrian intervention and withdrawal in TV phone-in

Vladimir Putin has used his annual live TV phone-in to say that Russia's intervention in Syria left the government's forces there in a position to take the offensive.

The president added that Moscow was doing everything to stop the situation from deteriorating.

By withdrawing its forces, he said, Russia had not "dropped everything".

"After the main part of our military contingent was withdrawn from Syria we left the Syrian army in a situation which enabled it to mount serious offensive operat…
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