By #BBCNews Steve Rosenberg:
It was Russian firepower that had helped keep Bashar al-Assad in power for the last nine years.
But, in a matter of days, the Kremlin's Syria project has unravelled, with Moscow, apparently, powerless to do anything about it.
The fall of the Assad regime is a blow to Russia's prestige. By sending thousands of troops to shore up President Assad in 2015, one of Russia's key objectives had been to assert itself as a global power. (Cont.)
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