BEIRUT (Sputnik) – According to the central hospital in Aleppo, 136 civilians were killed by shells in the city between April 24 and May 11.
"Militants opened fire on the Christian district of Midan. Early [on Thursday] several shells fell in the Saif Dawla district, four more fell in the Azamiah district," a source from the defense forces said.
On Tuesday Lt. Gen. Sergei Kuralenko, who heads the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, stated that the so-called regime of silence in Aleppo had been extended for another 48 hours, beginning at midnight on May 10.
The Syrian government signed a US-Russian brokered ceasefire with opposition forces on February 27. Terrorist organizations such as Daesh and Nusra Front, both outlawed in Russia, are excluded from the truce.
