MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Over 1,800 people have been evacuated from the besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya over the past 48 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
"Within the last 2 days, over 1,800 people have been evacuated from the Darayya inhabited area (Damascus province) – those are civilians, militants who laid down their arms and members of their families," the ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website.
According to the ministry, they have been transported by buses to the city of Idlib and to the temporary housing area in the Keisua settlement, located in Damascus province.
"Seriously wounded people have been delivered to the hospitals of the Damascus city," the bulletin reads.
