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Russia delivers 21 tons of UN aid to besieged Syrian city

Xinhua, August 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Russian aircraft has delivered 21 tons of UN humanitarian aid to Syria's eastern city of Deir ez-Zor besieged by IS militants, said the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria Tuesday.

"Low-income families of the Ash-Shakrakhia, Daraa province, and Adabez, Hama province, have received over four tons of rice, sugar and canned food. The bakery plant of the Mesherfa, Homs province, has received about three tons of flour," the center said.

Posts with hot meal and life necessities are deployed for the civilians leaving Aleppo city, northwest Syria, which is under the control of "terrorist armed groupings," according to the center.

Syria has been entangled with a civil war since 2011, and a cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia came into force in Syria at the end of last February. It was supported by the Syrian government as well as dozens of opposing groups except for some terrorist factions including IS. Endit