Kremlin refutes stories The spouse of Assad has demanded a divorce.

A Kremlin spokesperson has stated that the wife of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was born in Britain, is not pursuing a divorce.

According to Turkish media, Asma al-Assad had expressed a desire to dissolve her marriage and flee Russia, where she and her spouse were granted shelter following the overthrow of the previous president’s government and the conquest of Damascus by a rebel coalition.

In response to questions over the reports during a press conference, Dmitry Peskov stated, “No, they do not correspond to reality.”

Reports that Assad had been imprisoned in Moscow and that his assets had been blocked were also refuted by him.

Throughout the civil war, Russia provided military backing to the Assad regime, which it considered a close ally.

However, rumors in Turkish media on Sunday indicated that the former Syrian first lady had filed for divorce and wished to return to London and that the Assads were subject to harsh restrictions in the Russian capital.

The UK foreign secretary has already stated that Mrs. Assad, a dual Syrian-British national, would not be permitted to return to the country.

David Lammy stated earlier this month in a speech to the parliament: “I want it confirmed that she’s a sanctioned individual and is not welcome here in the UK.”

He also promised to do “everything I can in my power” to prevent any Assad family member from “finding a place in the UK.”

Last week, Bashar al-Assad claimed in a statement that he had never planned to leave Syria but that Moscow had requested that he be flown from a Russian military station.

Asma al-Assad, 49, was raised in Acton, west London, after being born in the UK in 1975 to Syrian parents.

She was 25 when she relocated to Syria in 2000, and she married her husband a few months after he took over as president from his father.

Western media were curious about Mrs. Assad during her 24 years as the first lady of Syria.

She was referred to as “a rose in the desert” and “the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies” in a contentious 2011 Vogue story. Since then, the piece has been taken down from the Vogue website.

After just one month, Mrs. Assad came under fire for keeping quiet as her husband brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators at the onset of the Syrian civil war.

Approximately half a million people died in the fighting, and her husband was charged with using chemical weapons on civilians.

To support her husband, Mrs. Assad told Russian state-run media in 2016 that she had turned down an invitation to leave the war-torn country safely.

In 2018, she disclosed that she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and a year later, she declared herself fully recovered.

In May of this year, the office of then-President Assad declared that she had been diagnosed with leukemia and had started treatment.

She would “temporarily withdraw” from public appearances, according to a statement.