https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3624507
https://zn.ua/HISTORY/vtoraya-mirovaya-voyna-v-plenu-istoricheskoy-politiki-283223_.html
The president, deeply unpopular and facing a rising tide of scandal, has involved his country in a military action that some see as an effort to deflect his critics from his problems. His election victory is credited to the behind-the-scenes influence of a powerful state suspected of using the president as a puppet to advance their own interests and weaken the country.
http://www.ndc.nato.int/news/news.php?icode=1172
http://www.rosbalt.ru/business/2018/05/11/1702235.html
https://theins.ru/obshestvo/101802
https://inosmi.ru/politic/20180511/242203102.html
Путин должен решить, кто его настоящие друзья в Сирии.
Putin needs to decide who his real friends are in Syria
https://ru.krymr.com/a/29219073.html