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After everything that happened in Syria, we were those who established peace in Syria, from those who had the main influence on the situation in this country, defeated terrorism, starting an operation when Damascus controlled that 18 per cent of Syrian territory, and today in fact more than 90 per cent, then, naturally, they [the West] began to say that "Russia is behaving somehow wrong in Syria."

— Sergei Shoigu

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They say that we are engaged in the militarization of the country, so that everyone would walk in formation there. This, of course, is far from the case.

Today we are at war not only with Ukraine and the Ukrainian army, but with the collective West.

We have achieved a high level of interaction between our armed forces on land, in the air and at sea. This increase is an important trend towards further activity.

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