Putin: Assad made many mistakes

Syrian President Basar Ashad made many mistakes in the course of the development of the conflict in the country. Vladimir Putin said this in an interview with the German publication Bild. The full text of the second part of the interview on Tuesday was published on the Kremlin website.

At the same time, the Russian president emphasized that clashes in Syria would not have acquired such a scale without help from outside "in huge quantities with money, weapons, and militants." “In such conflicts, of course, unfortunately, to the great regret, the peaceful population suffers,” Putin emphasized.

“But who is responsible for this? The government that seeks to preserve sovereignty and fights with these anti -constitutional actions, or those who organize such an armed struggle with the government?” Putin wondered.

Answering the question of journalists, whether Russia bombed not only the positions of the Islamic State, but also the objects of the rebels, the Russian president replied: "They all lie." “American pilots, I think, by mistake, of course, struck the hospital in Afghanistan, in Kunduz, the“ doctors without borders ”hospital. People died, doctors suffered and died too. They try to keep silent about this, they don’t say anything, forget, quickly forget everything,” he added.

Answering the question of whether Russia would be ready to provide asylum Assad, Putin replied that it was too early to talk about it. “We provided a refuge for Mr. Snowden, it was more difficult than providing Assad,” he added. “First you need to give the Syrian people to speak out. And I assure you, if this goes in a democratic way, in this way, then maybe it will not be necessary to leave Assad anywhere. And it doesn’t matter whether he will be president or not,” the Russian president added.

Meanwhile, according to the Syrian Supervisory Board of Human Rights, for three months that have passed since the open intervention of Moscow in the Syrian war, at least 792 civilians were killed from Russian airstrikes in this country.

In total, human rights activists know about 2371 victims of Russian bombing. If we exclude the dead civilians, we are talking about 655 killed militants of the Islamic State and about 924 rebels fighting with the IS organization "Jabhat al-Nusra". Among the dead combatants, the message is noted, both Syrians and foreigners are taken into account.

Russia intervened in the Syrian war on September 30. During this time, thousands of airstrikes were inflicted on objects in the Middle East country. In addition, goals in Syria were fired at ships from the Caspian Sea and a submarine - from the Mediterranean .