It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

EU foreign ministers were in Brussels to discuss lifting some sanctions on Syria after the fall of Bashar Assad's regime. Foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc "aimed to move fast."

Assad, the Russian-backed dictator of Syria, has led to Russia needing to evacuate its military contingent from the country. To accomplish this, Russia has sent ships to Syria to evacuate the remaining equipment along with airlifting the most valuable equipment.

The E.U. is moving to ease sanctions in a bid to sway how HTS leads Syria’s transition and to further curb Russian influence in the region, diplomats told The Post.

Syria's new ruling administration has cancelled a contract with a Russian firm to manage and operate the country's Tartous port that was signed under former President Bashar al-Assad, according to three Syrian businessmen and media reports.

Since Assad’s fall in the first week of December, Israel has destroyed a large proportion of Syria’s strategic stock of weapons so that they do not fall into the hands of Islamic State and other hostile forces. And Israel has unilaterally seized the Syrian side of Mount Hermon and the United Nations demilitarized zone adjacent to the Golan Heights.

The Sparta II, a Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions, had been drifting near Tartus since Jan. 5 after leaving Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast on Dec. 11.

The new authorities in Syria ended an agreement with the Russian company managing the key port of Tartous in the latest sign of Russia's waning influence in the country after the fall of the regime.

Russia's exit from Syria will disrupt supplies to its forces in Africa. But as Moscow's fortunes in the resource-rich Continent wane, Beijing's are rising

In December, the brutal Assad regime collapsed. The Russian military, which had a significant naval, ground, and air presence in the country, had to pull out its forces as quickly as possible. The pull-out, however, will have long-term consequences on Russia’s ability to project force.

The fact of the matter is, though, the Russo-Iranian alliance in the Middle East has been dealt a serious blow with the loss of Assad’s regime in Syria. That is now being made all the more evident by the fact that the new Turkish-backed Islamist government in Damascus,

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman discussed developments in the Gaza Strip, Syria and the Russia-Ukraine crisis with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday.