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| Russian Federation Council Chairperson, Valentina Matviyenko & President Vladmir Putin |
Russia's
upper house of parliament has authorised military intervention in Syria,
Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
The
Federation Council immediately approved a Kremlin request for permission to
send troops on combat missions in Syria on Wednesday morning, according to
Russian news organisations. The announcement came only moments after the
Federation Council said it would "consider the question" of sending
troops abroad. The Russian constitution requires the president to seek
permission from the upper house before sending troops on overseas combat
missions.
The
announcement comes after Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia would consider conducting
airstrikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria. Russia is believed to have
deployed up to 2,000 troops and a detachment of combat aircraft to Syria in
recent weeks. Last week the Kremlin denied a Bloomberg report that it would ask
parliament for authorisation to deploy 2,000 airforce personnel to Syria. Commenting
on reports last week, Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he “had not seen any
documents concerning this issue.”
Meanwhile,
Sergei Ivanov, the head of the presidential administration, has been speaking
to Russian
state
television. He said: I want to say the result of the vote was a unanimous
approval of the Russian president’s request. Importantly: this is specifically
about Syria. I want to underline that this is not about any kind of political
objective or ambitions that we have been accused of by our western partners. It
is only about international interests of Russian Federation. Earlier Mr Putin
said that Russia would only enter the war inside Syria as Bashar Assad's request.
It is not yet clear whether such a request has been received.
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