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Russian Planes Deliver More Than 20 Tonnes of UN Aid to Syria

© Sputnik / Press service of Russian Defense Ministry  / Go to the mediabankSyrian Air Force aircraft dropping humanitarian cargo on Russian parachute platforms in the area of Deir ez-Zor, Syria.
Syrian Air Force aircraft dropping humanitarian cargo on Russian parachute platforms in the area of Deir ez-Zor, Syria. - Sputnik International
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Russian planes have delivered over 20 tonnes (metric tons) of UN aid and over 3 tonnes of Russian aid to Syria, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation informs.

HMEIMIM (Sputnik) – The aid was food products delivered in the Deir ez-Zor area using parachute platforms, according to a daily bulletin posted on the Russian Defense Ministry website.

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The statement added that the Russian reconciliation center carried out a total of 7 of its own humanitarian events in the past 24 hours, all of them in Aleppo.

As a result of the operations, 3,350 Syrian citizens received aid, with its total weight standing at 3.4 tonnes.

Syrian residents have been in dire need of assistance amid continuing fighting between the Syrian government forces and various opposition and terrorist groups, such as Daesh, outlawed in Russia and numerous other countries. Russia has been carrying out regular humanitarian aid deliveries to Syrian civilians and has been facilitating the distribution of UN aid in the country.

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