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CaptainTruth

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17. Clash Report says TASS reported he's in Moscow.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Dec 8, 2024, 01:31 PM

Dec 8

"Assad and his family members arrived in Moscow; Russia provided them with asylum, Russian state media TASS reported."

So it appears he wasn't on the Il-76T (callsign RB9218) that was apparently shot down last night while leaving Syria. The plane is mainly used by the Syrian air force so there was a lot of speculation that he might have been on it. It certainly doesn't look like it made a normal landing:

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