He appears to be saying: "The main task is done with an A+ mark.
Sergey Lavrov told Chinese state news agency Xinhua that figure included nearly 120,000 people from third countries, including more than 300 Chinese civilians.
In other words, what we are seeing today—Russia's unilateral declaration of war—is the clearest statement yet of Russia's actual position: Putin empathizes with Bashar al-Assad as a fellow leader holding his country back from the brink and doing the dirty work that needs to be done to accomplish that, and the U.