DAMASCUS (Sputnik) — Six Russian trucks carrying some 30 tonnes of humanitarian aid reached the outskirts of Syria’s Damascus on Thursday, a spokesman for Russia’s Syrian reconciliation center said.
"Every package contains sugar, rice, flour and canned meat. Every truck carried five tonnes of cargo," Fyodor Ochinsky said.
16 August 2017, 19:38 GMT
Food supplies will be handed out to residents of Eastern Ghouta, a so-called de-escalation zone created on the edge of the Syrian capital. Russian trucks entered the cordoned off area through a checkpoint manned by Russian military police.
Last May, Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed four de-escalation zones at a meeting in Kazakhstan’s Astana to improve humanitarian access to most affected areas of the country where over 220,000 people have died during six years of war.
