Putin congratulate to assad on Aleppo liberation

“Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and congratulated him with the end of the operation of liberation of Aleppo from fighters,” the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday.

“This success was possible thanks to mutual efforts of all who came together in the fight with international terrorism in Syria,” it said.

The statement added that Putin “underlined that the main task remains to focus efforts on issues pertaining to the… resolution of the Syrian crisis.”

According to the statement, Putin also told Assad that the efforts must be directed toward trying to achieving an agreement to resolve the Syria crisis.