RTFri, 15 Jan 2016 10:45 UTC
© Andrey Stenin / Sputnik Unloading Russian EMERCOM plane with humanitarian aid which arrived to Latakia Airport in Syria.
The Russian military is maintaining logistics support for a humanitarian operation in Syria aimed to provide the civilian population with basic needs. International humanitarian missions have so far been providing aid to regions which remain under terrorist control. Although a number of
non-governmental organizations have been providing humanitarian aid on Syrian territory, most of the supplies sent have ended up on territories controlled by terrorists.
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The extremists used most of that aid for the supply of [terrorist] gangs," Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the main operations department of the Russian General Staff, said during a press briefing in Moscow. "On top of that,
multiple [terrorist] attempts have been registered to deliver arms and munitions, and to evacuate wounded militants under the guise of humanitarian convoys," Rudskoy stressed. According to the general, these issues with the foreign aid sent so far have led to Russia taking the decision to launch a humanitarian operation of its own in Syria.
A Syrian Ilyushin Il-76 jumbo jet has already delivered the first batch of humanitarian aid to the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, Rudskoy said.
Comment: As a result of probable
western pressure, Bulgaria closed off its airspace to Russian aid flights to Syria in September. The US embassy also appealed to Athens with the same request, but Greece
refused. Iran naturally opened its airspace for the delivery of Russian humanitarian supplies to Syria. 'You will know them by their fruits':
U.S. attempting to block Russian aid flights to Syria.
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Seems if ya want a job done right, just let the Russians do it.