Syria. Media: the family of dictator Bashar al-Assad Assad fled to Russia and the United Arab Emirates

“Bashar al-Assad's family fled to Russia just days after the rebels launched an offensive aimed at seizing territory in northern Syria,” The Telegraph wrote on Saturday. The decision to flee the country was apparently influenced by very clear information from Moscow. A source close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg that Moscow has no plans to save the Syrian president, the British daily added.

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Earlier, The Wall Street Journal, citing the Syrian security services and Arab officials, reported that the British-born wife of the Syrian president – Asma al-Assad – had fled to Russia. She took her three children with her.

As the newspaper reported, her two brothers and Assad's sons-in-law also left Syria, but went to the United Arab Emirates.

Earlier, there was also information that Assad's family, and perhaps Assad himself, was to board a plane to Iran, but the government in Tehran categorically denied these reports.

On Sunday morning, world agencies reported that Bashar al-Assad fled the capital on board a plane that flew to an unknown destination.

Before At 7 a.m. in Poland, the rebels who took over the television announced in an appeal to the nation that “Damascus is free” and the dictator's 24-year rule is over. At the same time, however, the Syrian army, loyal to the dictator, claims that it is constantly “fighting terrorists” in other cities.

The catastrophic situation in Syria, completely destabilized and devastated by the civil war, has been going on for 13 years. More than half a million people probably died there and several million lost their homes.