🇷🇺-Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Borisenko:

Moscow's decision to grant former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad political asylum is a "final and irreversible decision."

The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized its categorical rejection of any demands or attempts to hand him over to the authorities in Damascus to face the death sentence issued in absentia on charges of committing war crimes, confirming that the grant of asylum was for humanitarian reasons and will not be subject to any compromise or reconsideration.