Vessels in Russia's Mediterranean Sea Task Force have been removed from the port of Tartus in Syria after Bashar Assad's downfall.
Russia is withdrawing vessels from its naval base in Syria following the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, it has been reported, amid uncertainty over how Vladimir Putin can maintain his stepping stone in the Mediterranean Sea without a key ally in power.The march of the Syrian rebels led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which collapsed Assad's regime, was both a loss of face for Putin and a significant strategic blow to Russia given the amount of military assets it had in the country.
But the Institute for the Study of War said Monday it is unclear whether the vessels' removal are part of a wider evacuation or to better protect them.'You need to have a steady presence and without this base, Russia's presence in Mediterranean will be in question,' Yörük Işık, head of the Istanbul-based Bosphorus Observer consultancy, told Newsweek.'They will try to reactivate the old Soviet network which to a certain degree they are already doing,' he said.
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