MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian military transport planes have airdropped 38.5 metric tons of humanitarian aid, mostly food supplies, to residents of Syria's city of Deir ez-Zor besieged by Daesh terrorists, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
"Two Russian military transport planes parachuted 38.5 metric tons of humanitarian cargo, mostly food rations and cereals, to the city of Deir ez-Zor blockaded by Daesh terrorists," the ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website.
