Russian aircraft delivers 44 tons of aid from France to Syria
Russia’s Antonov An-124 Ruslan military transport
plane has delivered 44 tons of humanitarian cargo from the French Chatearoux
airport to Syria’s Hmeymim airfield, Tass news agency reported on Saturday.
The cargo was dispatched to Syria in accordance with
the decision on a joint project to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian
population made by the Russian and French presidents in St. Petersburg on May
24, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The Russian aircraft delivered emergency medical
care medications, clothes, tents, medical equipment and basic necessities.
The medicines and essentials delivered to Syria
"will be handed over to meet the needs of the civilian population, which
is still in dire need of assistance, in Eastern Ghouta (Douma), particularly
for emergency medical care in hospitals managed by the Syrian Arab Red
Crescent," the ministry noted.
"The cargo will be escorted in accordance with
the UN regulations with Russia’s support and in keeping with international
humanitarian law," the Russian Defense Ministry stressed.
