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| Humanitarian pause in Aleppo extended for another 24 hours – Russian military | Humanitarian pause in Aleppo extended for another 24 hours – Russian military |
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| No airstrikes will be carried out in Aleppo for another day, as the humanitarian pause for the region has been extended until Saturday evening. Meanwhile, terrorists have been preparing to launch an offensive there, Russia’s Defense Ministry says. | No airstrikes will be carried out in Aleppo for another day, as the humanitarian pause for the region has been extended until Saturday evening. Meanwhile, terrorists have been preparing to launch an offensive there, Russia’s Defense Ministry says. |
| President Putin has ordered that the temporary ceasefire in Aleppo be extended for another day. The humanitarian pause will be in effect from 8am to 7pm local time on Saturday, Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff’s main operations directorate, announced on Friday. | President Putin has ordered that the temporary ceasefire in Aleppo be extended for another day. The humanitarian pause will be in effect from 8am to 7pm local time on Saturday, Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the Russian General Staff’s main operations directorate, announced on Friday. |
| Moscow stopped carrying out airstrikes in eastern Aleppo earlier this week in order to pave the way for a complete ceasefire in which a number of humanitarian corridors have been opened for those who want to escape the areas of the city controlled by terrorists and rebels. | |
| To fulfill their obligations aimed at normalizing the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, the Russian and Syrian Air Forces have for four days not conducted any flights closer than 10km (6.2 miles) to the city, the official said. | |
| However, the militants have used the opportunity to launch a new offensive, according to the Russian army official. | |
| More than 1,200 militants equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and portable heavy machine guns have amassed for an attack on Aleppo from the southwest, Rudskoy said, adding that there are also some 30 suicide bombers within their ranks. | |
| It has also been reported that the terrorists have recently begun receiving shoulder-fired missiles. | |
| Militants continue to shell the humanitarian corridors in western Aleppo, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported, saying that at least eight civilians were killed and over 30 injured during the course of a day. | |
| A UN humanitarian agency announced earlier on Friday that it could not conduct medical evacuations from eastern Aleppo or deliver aid to the besieged part of the city because the situation in the area was too unsafe. |