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Ukraine and Syria formally restored diplomatic relations connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) arsenic their leaders met connected the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine broke disconnected relations with Syria successful June 2022 aft ousted Syrian person Bashar al-Assad’s authorities recognised the independency of swathes of occupied Ukraine pursuing Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine has worked to prosecute with Syrian authorities since the December 2024 toppling of Assad, who was for years a staunch Russian state and allowed Moscow to physique up a subject foothold connected its territory.
“We are pleased with this important measurement and are acceptable to enactment the Syrian radical connected their way to stability,” Mr. Zelenskyy wrote connected Telegram aft announcing the restoration of diplomatic relations.
Mr. Zelenskyy sent his Foreign Minister to Damascus past December to clasp talks with the caller Syrian leadership, urging them to chopped Russia’s beingness from its territory and promising nutrient assistance shipments.
The Syrian enactment said it was hoping for adjacent relations with Kyiv.
Russia, which has fixed Assad asylum, has itself made disposable efforts to physique relations with the caller Syrian authorities and sent a large delegation headed by a apical vigor authoritative to sojourn earlier this month.
On Wednesday (September 24, 2025), Mr. Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly successful his code that Syria deserved stronger planetary support, and that Damascus was inactive having to entreaty for an easing of crippling economical sanctions.
