Russian aid distributed to eastern Aleppo
Syrian army advancing on last pockets of eastern Aleppo
Syria's army is advancing, taking yet more neighbourhoods from so called "rebels" in east Aleppo overnight. It now holds around two-thirds of the former militant bastion.
Published: December 5, 2016, 12:08 pm
And while the army occupies former miltant territory, the large Shaar neighbourhood is effectively being encircled by government forces, now holding 70 percent of eastern Aleppo, four years after rebels first seized it, Sputnik News reported.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told the Iranian state news agency IRNA on Saturday that Tehran and Moscow would continue to cooperate in the Syrian war “until the ultimate goal of eradicating terrorism and restoring peace and full security to the region is achieved”.
Rouhani met with Russian special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev in Tehran.
According to the Al-Watan newspaper citing sources, certain militant groups have launched secret talks with the Syrian army on legalizing their status and leaving eastern Aleppo.
A fresh proposal by US Secretary of State John Kerry contains detailed withdrawal procedures for the insurgents, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed to RT.
“During the Russian-American consultations concrete routes and timing of the withdrawal of all militants from eastern Aleppo will be discussed. Once we reach an agreement, a ceasefire will be put in place,” Lavrov explained.
But Lavrov also told journalists Monday that Russia ruled out supporting a draft resolution imposing a new ceasefire in Aleppo.
“Taking into consideration the outcome of the previous pauses [in the conflict], there is absolutely no doubt that the 10-day ceasefire which backers of the draft resolution generously want to provide the militants with would surely be used for regrouping and rearming the extremists and would slow down the liberation of eastern Aleppo from them,” he said.
Lavrov called the draft resolution “counterproductive”.
The Russian Ministry of Defense says the UN stopped offering humanitarian aid to eastern Aleppo after more than 40 percent of the territory was recaptured by Syrian government forces and added that the UN humanitarian aid which 30 000 people have been allegedly receiving in Aleppo in the past few days, as was reported by Reuters on Thursday, is nonexistent.
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