Syria said on Tuesday it supports Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize two Ukrainian breakaway republics as independent. “Syria supports President Putin’s decision to recognize the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk and will cooperate with them,” the state-run Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted the country’s foreign minister, Faisal Mikdad as telling the Valdai Forum in Moscow on Tuesday. “What the West is doing against Russia today is similar to what it did against Syria during the terrorist war,” he was quoted as saying. Russia has been a main ally of Syrian President Bashar …