“In accordance with the request of the President of Russia, at the personal request of US Secretary of State, send to Geneva… a team of experts to work out joint measures to stabilize the situation in the Aleppo region,” Shoigu said in a televised address.
Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, with government forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fighting a number of opposition factions and extremist groups. On February 27, a US-Russia brokered ceasefire came into force in Syria. Terrorist groups such as Daesh, as well as Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front), both outlawed in Russia and a range of other states, are not part of the deal.
Russia has continuously asked its partners in the fight against terrorism in Syria to notify it of locations of moderate opposition forces allied to them, so that they would not be targeted by accident.
