Russian Jets Airdrop 32.5 Tons of Aid to Deir Ez-Zor Besieged by Daesh

Russian cargo planes airlifted 32.5 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the Islamist-besieged Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily bulletin on its website.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Over the past week, the city had received an average of over 36 tons of humanitarian cargo, mostly food rations and cereals.

"Russian aircraft using parachute systems have delivered 32.5 tons of food products received from the UN to Deir ez-Zor, which had been besieged by Daesh militants," the ministry said Tuesday.

Russia has been supplying food, medicine and construction materials to besieged and hard-to-reach areas in Syria since the beginning of 2016.

An aid truck of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Syria (File)

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