They’ve had Troops there for years. Supporting Assad.

Guessing they’ll need to surge numbers because the shock advance has seemingly thoroughly routed the Syrian Army in a few key areas. And they need to stem the bleeding and give the Syrian Army time to reform. Lest they loose their bases and strategic positions in the region.

Wonder how their logistics and equipment chains are holding up. They aren’t the Soviet Union with bottomless numbers of Men and Machines anymore.

And the costs of the Ukraine Conflict on their Logistics capacity and Equipment stockpiles are undoubtedly starting to add up after 2 years of near constant conflict and replacement of combat losses of men and equipment.

Add potentially supporting Large numbers in prolonged operations in the Mediterranean. Their supply corps is going to have an unenviable time of it keeping track of it all.