putin use the same strategy we are seeing now, indiscriminate bombing. civilians and residential homes were routinely targeted by russian and syrian forces, especially in the once thriving city of aleppo which was, essentially, as you see there, destroyed. reduced to rubble. russia allegedly used the same kind of a legal cluster bombs they are now using to target civilians in ukraine. and russian forces also deliberately hard target hospitals as part of the bombing campaign. according to a thorough new york times investigation. at one point, destroying four of them in just 1:12 of the span. this reign of terror forced millions of syrians to flee the country. more than 6.6 million so far, many of whom fled to europe. and it created the worst refugee crisis we have seen in years, and caused ripple effects throughout the entire world. at the same time, the conflict in syria exacerbated by russia's involvement, left an opportunity for the terror