U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, meanwhile, urged Russian Federation to let the United Nations take charge of the corridors. He said Russian Federation offered global organizations working in Syria to join this operation.
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“The world must not allow Russian Federation to get away with disguising its assault on Aleppo with deceitful talk about humanitarian “corridors”, said Bassma Kodmani, a member of the High Negotiations Committee, Syria’s main opposition group.
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Shoigu said in televised comments that President Vladimir Putin has ordered a “large-scale humanitarian operation” that will be launched outside Aleppo to help civilians as well as allow fighters who wanted to lay down the arms to surrender.
United Nations special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
The plan needed to include regular pauses in the fighting to get people out and aid in, said De Mistura.
De Mistura also praised a statement from the International Red Cross about the Russian proposal, which said any such corridors should have the “consent of all parties on all sides”.
“The clock is ticking for the Aleppo population”, he said.
If humanitarian corridors were to be set up, however, a break in fighting is essential to guarantee the safety of those fleeing the war-ravaged city, he explained. He said he had no indication that all involved groups had agreed to the plan.
Control of Aleppo, Syria’s most populous city before the civil war began five years ago, has been a main objective of the combatants.
At least 15 civilians were killed and dozens wounded Thursday in US-led coalition air strikes on the northern IS-controlled town of Ghandoura, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Few civilians are actually fleeing eastern Aleppo so far, with early reports suggesting only a few hundred civilians have fled.
“In this context, humanitarian corridors, which require residents of Aleppo to leave the city, do not represent a credible response to the situation”.
It later reported unidentified air strikes on the rebel-held town of Atareb in Aleppo province that killed 10 people and wounded many other seriously, calling the raids a “new massacre”.
“But clearly, the United Nations and the rest of us can not be complicit in anything else – for instance, any form of emptying of Aleppo, or preparing for an onslaught in Aleppo, or indeed any continuation of this medieval siege of Aleppo which is going on”, he said.
“The hospital itself was affected badly because some equipment was damaged, including the generator running the electricity. and some other equipment including incubators for newborns”, he said.
The fourth corridor, in the direction of Castello Road, would be for armed militants, he said. Syrian state TV said government warplanes carried out an airstrike in the same area, also claiming a senior Islamist militant had been killed without naming him. The U.S. military acknowledged July 28 that there may have been civilian deaths.
Last weekend four hospitals were hit in strikes around Aleppo.
It says casualties were reported but it had no immediate figures.
Meanwhile, the USA military has announced on 27 July a formal enquiry into a 19 July airstrike in a village near Manbij, Northern Syria, that is being called by observers as the worst attack on civilians in its two year battle against Islamic State (Isis). The village is located some 10 kilometers northwest of Manbij, a key waypoint between the Turkish border and the IS de facto capital of Raqa city.
The Manbij area has seen extensive battles between ISIS extremists and US -backed Kurdish-led fighters, who have been advancing under the cover of airstrikes by the USA -led coalition.
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Syrian state media are reporting that government forces have taken another neighborhood from rebels in the contested northern city of Aleppo.
