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The rebels who toppled Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria received drones and other military support from Ukraine, David Ignatius writes in an article for The Washington Post , citing his sources.
"Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 FPV drones to a rebel headquarters in Syria's Idlib four to five weeks ago to help the leading rebel group based there, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, people familiar with the matter said," Ignatius writes.
He notes that Western intelligence estimates suggest that Ukrainian aid played a modest role in the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But it was important as part of Ukraine’s broader efforts to covertly target Russian operations in the Middle East, Africa and inside Russia itself.
Ignatius says Ukraine's covert aid program in Syria was an "open secret," even though senior Biden administration officials have repeatedly said they were unaware of it.
Earlier, Ukrainian media, citing intelligence sources, reported that "Syrian rebels, with the support of Ukrainian operatives, carried out numerous strikes on Russian military facilities present in the region."
Russian officials have also been complaining for months about Ukraine's militarized actions in Syria. Alexander Lavrentyev, Russia's special representative for Syria, said in November that "Ukrainian intelligence officers are on the territory of Idlib."
The Syria operation is not the only time Ukrainian military intelligence has operated abroad to target Russian operatives. In August, the BBC reported that Ukraine helped rebels in northern Mali ambush Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group.
"Like Ukraine's operations in Africa and the attack on the Kursk region inside Russia, the covert operation in Syria reflects an attempt to expand the battlefield - and to hurt the Russians where they are not ready. Ukraine's aid was not the drone that broke the camel's back, so to speak. But it helped, at least in a small way, to bring down Russia's most important client in the Middle East," the observer notes.
Andrey Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, believes that the situation in Syria has forced Russia to urgently withdraw its military forces from bases in the country. These forces may end up at the front in Ukraine, but will not significantly affect the overall situation.
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