Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have died in a plane crash. This statement was made by Ag. Reuters, citing its own sources.
Earlier, the agency reported that Assad left Damascus by plane. According to agency sources, there is a "very high probability that Assad died in the crash". They pointed to the strange trajectory of the plane, which, according to the monitoring site Flightradar, "suddenly made a 180-degree turn and disappeared from the map".
„The plane disappeared from the radar, the transponder may have been turned off, but I think it is more likely that the ship was shot down,” said one of the agency's sources in Syria, declining to comment further.
On November 27, the formation of the Jabhat al-Nusra group (banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as a terrorist organization) and its allies launched a large-scale offensive against the positions of the Syrian government forces. By the evening of December 7, Assad's opponents had captured the cities of Aleppo, Hama, Deir ez-Zor, Daraa and Homs. On Sunday morning, Syrian fighters entered Damascus, after which units of the Syrian army left the city. The prime minister of the republic, Mohammed Ghazi Al Jalali, said he spoke to Assad for the last time on the evening of December 7 and informed him of the situation.