the other shows artillery fire from weapons which der spiegel claims that bashar al-assad's troops do use. commands in russian can be heard in the clip. russian president vladimir putin has denied the presence of ground troops in syria. for more on this, let's go to washington, d.c. now. matthew from the wilson center is standing by. good afternoon to you. their spiegel saying -- their spiegel saying there are russian ground troops in syria, what you make of it? is that something we should believe? >> well, it's hard to argue with some of the video evidence. i think the question is always going to be about the detail and scale. what we can see for sure is a senior russian officer, i think it is entirely possible that he is far from where you would expect russians to be. what exactly he is doing there is not clear from the clip. that is not proof that there are 3000 russians or that russian ground forces are engaged in ground combat operations. with respect to the weapon systems, the russians have been flying bashar al-assad from the very beginning of the conflict, in fact for decades

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