The Russian military says it has withdrawn about 30 aircraft from its base in Syria, including all of the Su-25 ground attack planes stationed there.
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However, state media and monitors said one person had died in shelling by rebels overnight.
Three more civilians were killed in the attacks early on Wednesday, it said.
According to Kuralenko, the level of violence in Syria has considerably dropped since the end of February, when the Russia-US brokered ceasefire kicked off and secured support from various armed opposition groups. “We look to Russian Federation…to press them for the regime’s compliance with this effort, and the United States will do its part with respect to the opposition”.
Russian Federation had deployed more than 50 jets and helicopters to its Hemeimeem air base on Syria’s coast. He called on Russian Federation to use its influence over President Bashar al-Assad to stop the violence.
“We urge parties to abide by this immediately and comprehensively”, he said.
Syrian security forces evacuate medical staff after rockets reportedly fired by rebels hit Al-Dabbeet hospital the in government-controlled neighbourhood of Muhafaza in the northern city of Aleppo on May 3, 2016.
“We seem to be having new possible besieged areas on our watch, we are having hundreds of relief workers unable to move in Aleppo”, he told reporters after a weekly humanitarian meeting of nations backing the Syria peace process.
There was no immediate response from Moscow to the announcement of an agreement, but the Syrian army said it would implement a “regime of calm” in Aleppo for 48 hours as of Thursday.
Putin said he regards the concert “as a sign of gratitude, remembrance and hope – of gratitude to all those who fight terrorism without sparing one’s own life; of remembrance for all victims of terror, regardless of the place and time of crimes against humanity; and of course hope not just for the revival of Palmyra as a cultural asset of all humanity but for the deliverance of modern civilization from this bad ill, from global terrorism”.
The humanitarian task force chaired by Egeland enjoyed some success in opening up access for aid in April, ensuring it reached 40 per cent of people in besieged areas in Syria, compared to 5 per cent in the whole of 2015.
Once Syria’s largest city and commercial center, he said, Aleppo is being subjected to “systematic destruction” and is increasingly becoming “a shell of what it once was”.
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The United Nations’ special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, made a plea on May 4 for a halt in fighting in the second city of Aleppo, warning that failure to do so could lead to a “catastrophic” outcome that could send 400,000 people rushing to the border with Turkey. Pro-opposition activists confirmed the report, adding that government forces regained control of a shopping mall that has become a new front line with rebel fighters in the western part of the city.
