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The transponder trick that Putin used to smuggle Assad out of Syria: How dictator escaped in dramatic dash to his private plane, used a slight of hand to evade flight tracker and switched jets in Russia

Sergei Ryabkov , Russia's deputy foreign minister, claimed that Assad was transported to Moscow 'in the safest way possible' following the sudden and dramatic collapse of his dictatorship.