Shoigu mentioned three humanitarian corridors as well as food and first aid points outside the city.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees reported intense fighting and airstrikes before the capture of the Layramoun area.
Pic: AFPDAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday offered an amnesty to armed rebels battling his forces if they surrender, the official SANA news agency reported.
In Geneva, the United Nations envoy for Syria said he aims to call a new round of talks between government and opposition envoys in Geneva “toward the end of August”. That will offer a way-out for fighters wanting to surrender, as well as be of some assistance for humanitarian needs in Aleppo. “The global community simply can not let eastern Aleppo city become yet another – and by far the largest – besieged area”.
“Together with the Syrian government we will open three humanitarian corridors in order to help civilians who were kept hostage by the terrorists as well as the fighters who want to lay down their arms”, he told a meeting in Moscow.
Syrian military forces sent text messages to the phones of civilians living in the opposition-held areas in the city of Aleppo promising safe passage to anyone who wishes to leave, according to Syrian state media Tuesday.
Assad’s asylum agreement is part of joint political and military operations with Russian Federation to ensure full control of insurgent-ruled east Aleppo, which is now completely under siege by Syrian government forces.
Once Syria s economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been roughly divided between rebel control in the east and government control in the west since mid-2012.
The proposals would have the two powers share intelligence to coordinate air strikes against the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front and prohibit the Syrian air force from attacking rebel groups labeled as moderate. It says that those who might set free their captives will be exempted from punishment if they turn themselves in within a month.
More than 280,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests that were met with a regime crackdown.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov were also due to meet Tuesday on the sidelines of an Asian summit in Laos.
