Putin needs to decide who his real friends are in Syria
https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2018/05/10/769015-nekanonicheskoe-tolkovanie-istorii
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3623836
As he meets the Russian president yet again in the wake of Trump's Iran deal exit and escalating tensions over Iran in Syria, Israel must confront the truth: Netanyahu's policy of kowtowing to Moscow isn't working
https://meduza.io/feature/2018/05/09/donbass-sergeya-loznitsy-teatr-voennyh-deystviy-i-absurda
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-44042558