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Ask Syrian refugees here in Europe what they actually fled. They fled the bombs dropped by Russia and their Syrian allies. It was Russia and their Syrian allies who were responsible for the majority of civilian casualties and the massive flow of refugees.

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Syrian civil war started ~2011, Russia joined in September 2015.

Most of the Syrian refugees came to Europe during the summer of 2015, before Russia even joined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

If we were to be nitpicky, we can even say the number of refugees from Syria in Europe decreased after Russian intervention.

Russian pilots started flying Syrian flagged bombers well before 2015. Russia was the primary weapons supplier to the Syrian regime throughout the conflict.

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