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Russian military intel chief says Putin's 2020 visit to Syria prepared in total secrecy

Petropavlosvsk, Kamchatskiy, Russia, January 7 (Sputnik) Russian President Vladimir Putin's last year visit to Damascus was prepared in total secrecy, Igor Kostyukov, the head of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), has said.
On January 7, 2020, Putin made a trip to the Syrian capital of Damascus, which included a visit to the Russian forces' command post in the country, negotiations with his counterpart, Bashar Assad, as well as a visit to the Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus and the Umayyad Mosque.
"And in those difficult circumstances, we had to keep the preparations for the visit in absolute secrecy. That meant that the circle of people involved was very limited," Kostyukov said in a documentary about the visit, broadcast by the Russian Rossiya 1 TV channel.
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