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Fri, 10/02/2015 - 11:21
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Russia's operation confined to Syria, ruminations about expansion pointless -- spokesman

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/. Russia confines its antiterrorist military operation to Syria and any hypotheical ruminations about its possible territorial expansion are pointless, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. "Nobody made statements on a possibility of this (expansion)," he said when a reporter asked him about a possible spread of the geography of Russian airstrikes beyond the Syrian borders. "We said from the very beginning the case in hand was Syria," Peskov said. "In this case, hypothetical formulations of any kind are totally out of place and there can be no discussion in this modality," he added answering a question about what Russia would do should it get a relevant request from Baghdad. "For the time being, we state that the operation is carried out at Syria's request, at the request of the legitimate Syrian government," he said. Read more

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