GENEVA (Sputnik) —The proposed plan consists of four parts, Egeland detailed:
"Why we have a UN initiative for east Aleppo that has four parts… We are urging the following four things: medical supplies in to the kneeling medical facilities in east Aleppo; medical evacuations out of east Aleppo for the estimated 300 or so patients that are in urgent need of medical evacuation, together with their families; the third element is food and other urgent supplies, humanitarian relief in to east Aleppo, and the fourth element is more medical personnel in to provide medical relief in east Aleppo. None of the four elements are conditional on the other."
Russia has recently backed a number of humanitarian pauses in Aleppo, with the latest one entering into force on Friday.