Russian mission: Daesh responds with atrocities to humanitarian aid to Aleppo

 Russian mission: Daesh responds with atrocities to humanitarian aid to Aleppo

Russia is calling upon all countries have a leverage to influence militant groups near Aleppo to urgently put strong pressures to make them stop mass atrocities against civilians being committed in response to the Russian-Syrian humanitarian operation, Russia’s envoy to the UN office and other international organizations in Geneva, Aleksei Borodavkin, said.

"The jihadists responded with mass terror to the large-scale Russian-Syrian humanitarian operation in Aleppo," Borodavkin said, adding that the situation in the city was "alarming" and "dramatic."

"Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in cooperation with Daesh, Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam have stepped up offensive operations in the north and south of Aleppo. Their artillery and mortars have been shelling the city’s residential areas and also humanitarian corridors and logistics centers that deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Aleppo. Suicide bomber-driven vehicles loaded with explosives are being sent into humanitarian corridors. Terrorists have launched a bloody campaign of systematic annihilation of the city’s civilians," he said.

"There is no justification for these crimes and there cannot be any. We are urging all countries that have influence on the illegal armed groups operating in the area to instantly put firm pressures on them to make them stop these mass atrocities," TASS cited Borodavkin as saying.

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