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By Denis Dyomkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was instructing his armed forces to start pulling out of Syria, over five months after he ordered the launch of a military operation that shored up his ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Putin, at a meeting in the Kremlin with his defense and foreign ministers, said Russian military forces in Syria had largely fulfilled their objectives and ordered an intensification of Russia's diplomatic efforts to broker a peace deal in the country. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had telephoned Assad to inform him of the Russian decision.
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