"What is your reading of them?" Just what they say: "to take the initiative and fight and destroy the terrorists in the territory they have already captured rather than waiting for them to arrive on our soil." Fighting, not promise to destroy...

"Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Monday that he has ordered Russian forces to begin withdrawing from Syria, saying they have achieved their goals in the country." As he said in the text you linked. So really a broken promise, is it?

"Russian officials are anything but a source of reliable information. " My bad. I saw the newspaper was English... As we know, very in favour of Putin...