Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country will help the Syrian government in the event of a foreign military intervention.
Putin made the remarks on Friday at a news conference on the final day of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg.
The Russian president, however, did not elaborate on how Moscow would help Damascus.
It was not clear if Moscow planned to defend Syria and increase military assistance.
"Will we help Syria? We will. We are helping them now. We supply weapons, we cooperate in the economic sphere, and I hope we will cooperate more in the humanitarian sphere ... to provide help for those people - civilians - who are in a difficult situation today," Putin said.
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