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🇷🇺 Russians Ensure Safety as Thousands of Syrian Civilians Seek Refuge at Khmeimim Airbase.

Amid ongoing HTS atrocities and collective punishment, thousands of civilians have fled to Khmeimim Airbase, seeking protection.

The Russian base commander has stated that he will personally ensure the safety of all those who have arrived.

Thousands of 🇸🇾 Syrian civilians were let into the Russian Khmeimim Airbase.

Russian army lets them take refuge while outside hell has broken loose.

📸 Photos from the meeting of the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and the Chief of Defense Staff of the Nigerian Army Christopher Musa.

🇸🇾 Syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in Russia on Wednesday and more shipments were expected in the future, a Syrian government official said, in a new sign of improving ties between 🇷🇺 Moscow and Syria's new rulers.

The cash arrived via plane at Damascus airport on Wednesday and was taken by a convoy of several trucks to the central bank, according to a separate source familiar with the matter.

Syria began paying Russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract during the 13-year-old Syrian civil war, after Damascus' previous contract with a subsidiary of the Austrian central bank was terminated due to European sanctions.

It is unclear if the arrangement is now continuing under the same terms. One source familiar with the contract said it was.

Russia backed Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad during the war, swaying the conflict with its bombardment of rebels including the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that ousted Assad in a lightning offensive last year.

But Russia quickly moved to maintain its ties with Damascus in the weeks after Assad fled to Moscow, with an eye on its two key bases in the country's coastal region.

A senior Russian diplomat visited Damascus in January and Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 12.

Two days later, Syria received its first shipment of local currency from Russia.

The cash shipments are critical: Syria's war-ravaged economy has slid further in the past months amid a shortage of currency that Syrian officials have attributed in part to delays in the Russian cash shipments, as well as to hoarding of Syrian pounds.

A senior former Syrian official said Russian cash shipments in the hundreds of billions of Syrian pounds (tens of millions of U.S. dollars) used to arrive in Damascus each month. Reuters could not determine exactly how much had arrived on Wednesday, the second such shipment since Assad was ousted on Dec. 8.

The cash crunch has left Syrian depositors struggling to use their savings and has piled pressure on local businesses who are already being squeezed by new competition from cheap imports as the protectionist economy is opened up by the new rulers.

Adding to the economic malaise, a planned 400% public-sector salary increase has not materialized, neither has the Qatari finance underpinning that increase, sources told Reuters, due to ambiguity over U.S. sanctions and U.S. President Donald Trump's Syria policy.

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🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin unleashed a missile strike to 'sink' a cargo ship amid claims it was carrying British weapons for use by Ukraine.

Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles hit the Panama-flagged container ship MSC LEVANTE F - reportedly Swiss-owned - soon after it arrived in Odesa on March 1, after making a stop in Turkey.

Two port workers were believed to have been wounded in the strike, which also damaged infrastructure, Ukrainian reports said.

The report of the attack comes as British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer today hosts Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders to discuss the future of the wartorn nation following the Ukrainian president's televised spat with US president Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

Russian Telegram channel TalipoV [sic] Online Z claimed that the vessel was loaded with drones and weaponry that had been collected from a NATO base in Turkey before being transported to Odesa in Ukraine.

Tapipov said: 'It was established that in Turkey the ship loaded additional containers of two colours on board - red and yellow - which contained British sea drones and weapons from the Turkish NATO base.

'Upon arrival at the port of Odesa, the ship was hit by two missiles at berth number two at 18:00.

After the strike detonations began, the cargo was completely destroyed, the ship sank.'

Another pro-war Telegram channel Soprotivlenie claimed that the cargo ship was carrying other Western military cargo, including 'radars and launch containers of ATACMS missiles' supplied by the US.

A picture purportedly shows the containers visible on the vessel in Odesa shortly before it was hit.

Ukrainian vice prime minister Oleksii Kuleba challenged the Russian account and said that the vessel was carrying 'completely civilian cargoes'.

The container ship was struck as it prepared to unload, according to the Russian report.

A strike on the 482ft MSC LEVANTE F was confirmed by Odesa region governor Oleg Kiper.

'The enemy fired a ballistic missile on Odesa,' he said. 'The attack damaged port infrastructure and a civilian vessel under the flag of the Republic of Panama owned by a European company.'

Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine Oleksiy Kuleba said a second ship was also hit, the Sierra Leone-flagged SUPER SARKAS.

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