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"The Il-76 carrying 20.5 tons of humanitarian cargo has landed at the airport of Latakia," the press service added.
The return flight from Latakia will take to Moscow some 50 Russian and CIS nationals who decided to leave the conflict zone.
The humanitarian operation will help ease tensions among Syria's population and refugees, the press service added.
Russia has delivered some 530 tons of humanitarian cargo to conflict-hit Syria over the past years.
More than 1,100 nationals of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other CIS and European countries were evacuated by the Emergencies Ministry from the conflict zone.
From Obama down Americans are incapable of seeing Russia for what it is. Not only has Russia been a leader in delivering humanitarian aid to conflict zones where America only drops bombs, but Russia has ceased capital punishment since Putin has come to office, the age of consent for both heterosexual and gay sex is sixteen. Putin has more than once given speeches about acceptance of both sexual preference and political dissent. Russia employs somewhere between one quarter and one third of working age Ukrainians, contributes something like twelve percent of GDP to the Ukraine and has voluntarily paid pensions to Ukrainians in the Donbas who were cut off by Kiev. If the corporate press in America would tell some of these things the American left, at least, would not be in a cold war froth like it is now.