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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Damascus command post for Russian forces during a January 7, 2020 trip to Syria. Video stills taken from the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense websites available at http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/62551/videos under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International