US President-elect Donald Trump took to social media early Sunday morning to weigh in on the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. The president-elect then highlighted the number of soldiers killed on both sides in Russia’s war on Ukraine and called for an end to the fighting. “There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin,” he wrote without specifying which conflict he was referring to. You can follow CNN’s live coverage of what’s happening in Syria here.

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