It’s an Iranian proxy war, and Iran is allied with Russia, but Russia likely isn’t interested in this other than to the extent that it’s an international distraction from Ukraine.
And Russia provided military hardware to groups it supported in Syria, and many of those groups were adjacent to terrorist groups—but not materially more so than the US’s support of groups in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It’s an Iranian proxy war, and Iran is allied with Russia, but Russia likely isn’t interested in this other than to the extent that it’s an international distraction from Ukraine.
And Russia provided military hardware to groups it supported in Syria, and many of those groups were adjacent to terrorist groups—but not materially more so than the US’s support of groups in Iraq and Afghanistan.