Facts revealed for the first time… A report reveals Bashar al-Assad’s last moments

Kamel Saqr, former director of the media office in the Syrian presidency, said in his response to a question about the moment when Assad began to feel that he was “alone,” on his way to the hours of fall. He said that that moment, when he was unable to telephone the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

The former director of Assad’s information office confirmed, in an interview with the Al-Arabiya channel’s “Mazej” podcast, that Assad began to feel isolated and lonely when he tried to contact the Russian president several times, and his attempts continued between the Wednesday and Thursday that preceded Sunday, the eighth of last December. The date of the day he fell and fled outside the country.

Russian categorical refusal to contact Assad
Saqr said that Al-Assad asked to contact Putin, but the call did not take place, then he tried the next day, that is, on Thursday, December 5, three days before his fall, but this call did not happen either, according to his confirmation on the “Mazej” program.

The former director of the media office in the Syrian presidency added that Al-Assad, after his attempts to contact Putin failed, called the latter’s envoy for the settlement in Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, and asked him to secure contact with the Russian President. However, Lavrentiev returned and told him that President Putin was currently visiting To “Belarus” and cannot contact.

According to Saqr, the response of Putin’s envoy to the settlement in Syria was not convincing, as he said, explaining that the leaders of countries, even their foreign ministers, can make any contact with any party, anywhere in the world, in reference to the former director of the media office, but there was refusal. Clear Russian contact with Assad.

Signs of Assad’s downfall
Regarding the indications that Assad fled before… Regarding his fall on December 8, Kamel Saqr said that one of these indicators was that Al-Assad informed him of his desire to deliver a televised speech, between Thursday and Friday, December 5 and 6, shortly after the forces of the Military Operations Department took control of Homs Governorate in the center of the country.

Saqr said that Al-Assad had prepared a speech consisting of approximately 400 words, and described the content of Al-Assad’s speech, which was scheduled to be broadcast on television, as “surprising” to him and that Al-Assad was very nervous.