You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.

Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.