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| Russia’s General Staff has asked President Vladimir Putin to order the resumption of airstrikes in eastern Aleppo due to the increased activity of militants, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. | Russia’s General Staff has asked President Vladimir Putin to order the resumption of airstrikes in eastern Aleppo due to the increased activity of militants, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. |
| "Due to the fact that there are still deaths among civilians and that the militants have resumed military activities against government forces, we’ve addressed Russia’s commander-in-chief, asking permission for the resumption of airstrikes targeting illegal armed groups in eastern Aleppo,” Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of operations in the Russian General Staff, said. | "Due to the fact that there are still deaths among civilians and that the militants have resumed military activities against government forces, we’ve addressed Russia’s commander-in-chief, asking permission for the resumption of airstrikes targeting illegal armed groups in eastern Aleppo,” Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of operations in the Russian General Staff, said. |
| Earlier on Friday, militants “used the moratorium of Russian and Syrian combat flights” and attempted to break into eastern Aleppo, the General Staff representative said. | |
| “The attack was carried out by three groups [of militants]… with support of 20 tanks and 15 APCs. All this was accompanied by heavy fire from rocket launchers and artillery," he said. | |
| The offensive was repelled, with the terrorists losing six tanks and five armored personnel carriers, Rudskoy said. | |
| During the last three days, the terrorists have shelled western Aleppo on 62 occasions, killing 43 people and injuring 76 more, Rudskoy said. | |
| On Thursday, a school in the Hay al-Andalus district of the city came under fire, with 12 civilians, including three school children, losing their lives and 14 others receiving injuries. | |
| Russian air forces in Syria have not carried out combat flights in eastern Aleppo for 10 days in order to facilitate humanitarian access to the city. |