Putin: Military operations will end with Assad army’s progress

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Russian Air Force’s military operation in Syria will end when the army of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad makes progress on the ground.

“We cannot take additional obligations and never did. I have said from the beginning that the active phase of our work will be limited till the end of the Syrian army attacks,” Putin told Russia’s Channel One yesterday.

The Russian president ruled out the possibility of a ground offensive in Syria, saying: “This is not possible, no matter what happens, we do not intend to do so, our Syrian friends know that.”

Putin stressed that everything the Russian troops are doing in Syria is being done according to plans and not some random acts, pointing out that Russia has collected information from the air before starting this operation.