Bashar al-Assad was poisoned in Russia – The Sun
2 January 19:24
The ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was attempted to be killed with poison. This was written by the British tabloid The Sun, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
According to the newspaper, Assad, who has been in Russia since December 8, 2024, began to feel unwell on December 29. He even sought medical attention. His symptoms included a severe cough and shortness of breath. The politician’s condition stabilized on Monday, December 30.
A Russian source cited by the tabloid claims that someone tried to poison Bashar al-Assad.
It is worth noting that Ukrainian politician, MP from the “EU” Oleksiy Honcharenko reacted to this information. He expressed doubts about the veracity of the information about the poisoning of the Syrian dictator.
“No one poisoned Assad. It’s a throw-in […]. Assad needs to be tried and placed in the conditions in which he kept thousands of poor people and tortured them. There is no need to poison him,” Goncharenko wrote.
Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko shares a similar opinion.
“The British “The Sun” is spreading the IPSO that Bashar al-Assad was allegedly poisoned in Moscow. But few people noticed that the primary source of this information was a telegram called “General SVR”. The channel’s administrators are trying to create the impression that it is run by an anonymous functionary of the Putin regime who secretly opposes Putin himself. In fact, ‘General SVR’ spreads gossip that, for one reason or another, is just beneficial to the Putin regime,” Tsaplienko wrote on his Telegram channel.
Bashar al-Assad is a Syrian statesman and politician from the Assad dynasty. He was the former President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and Secretary of the Syrian regional branch of the Baath Party from July 17, 2000 to December 8, 2024.
In March 2014, at the beginning of the temporary Russian occupation of Crimea, he supported Putin’s actions. In the UN General Assembly, Syria voted to recognize the so-called “Crimean referendum”, becoming one of the countries that supported Russia.
In April 2018, it became known that in the summer of 2017, three of his children, sons Karim and Hafez, and daughter Zein, were vacationing in the Artek camp in the Russian-occupied Crimea. According to Assad, his children “began to understand Russia better after that”.
After that, Bashar al-Assad was included in the list of the Peacemaker Center for deliberately organizing the violation of the state border of Ukraine by underage children to enter the Russian-occupied Crimea, participating in Russia’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda activities, and for participating in attempts to legalize the annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
on March 18, 2023, Ukraine imposed personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) against Bashar al-Assad, including deprivation of state awards.
on November 27, 2024, pro-Turkish Islamist rebels from the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham group launched an offensive from the province of Idlib. As a result of the Syrian opposition’s march on December 8, Damascus was captured and Bashar al-Assad fled the country toward Lebanon. on December 8, it was reported that he had allegedly been in a plane crash, and in the evening of the same day, Russian media reported that Bashar al-Assad and his family had arrived in Moscow, where he was granted asylum.
