December 23, 2024:
Ukrainian special operations detachments have operated in places like Africa and the Middle East to injure the Russians and find out what they are up to. These Ukrainian forces popped up in Syria 6-7 months ago, and the Turks recently revealed that they began cooperating at that time with the then Syrian HTS terrorist group located in Idlib province in northeastern Syria to overthrow the former Assad government. It came out last month that Ukrainian special operators had trained the HST rebels in the use of UAVs and provided them with a bunch of UAVs to overthrow the Assad government. Idlib province has land borders only with Turkey, Syria and Hezbollah-controlled portions of Lebanon, so the Ukrainians’ only access to HTS, and provide it with UAVs, was via Turkey. So Turkey and Ukraine cooperated with each other as well as HTS in overthrowing the Assad regime.
The Ukrainians continue to contend with the Russians in Syria. The Russians are negotiating with HTS for permission to continue operating the military bases in Syria which the old Assad government had leased to them. Ukraine has offered a considerable amount of yearly wheat deliveries if the HTS government denies the Russian base requests. The HTS government needs a lot more food than the Assad government did because it now feed a much larger Syrian population. At least six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and crowded into the former terrorist-controlled Idlib province are now coming home.