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| Russia to create humanitarian corridors in Idlib to prevent civilian casualties – Russian FM | Russia to create humanitarian corridors in Idlib to prevent civilian casualties – Russian FM |
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| Moscow will create humanitarian corridors in Syria’s Idlib and encourage local reconciliation deals to prevent civilian casualties, the Russian Foreign Minister has said. He warned that terrorist sites would still be targeted. | Moscow will create humanitarian corridors in Syria’s Idlib and encourage local reconciliation deals to prevent civilian casualties, the Russian Foreign Minister has said. He warned that terrorist sites would still be targeted. |
| “We will do everything not to hurt civilian population,” the diplomat said. | “We will do everything not to hurt civilian population,” the diplomat said. |
| While delivering his message, Lavrov also pulled no punches on the way the Western coalition helped “liberate” cities. In particular, he touched upon Iraq’s Mosul and Syria’s Raqqa, which have been major strongholds of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists for a long time. | |
| READ MORE: ‘Stench of countless decaying bodies everywhere’: RT reports from Mosul months after victory | |
| The cities were razed to the ground during the Western-backed offensives and corpses were lying under the rubble “for months,” he said. The minister recalled that during these operations no proper evacuation corridors were created for civilians to leave. | |
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