Sputnik.png 50-ton Air-Drop for Deir ez-Zor Syria's seventh largest city, besieged by Daesh, gets Russian-Syrian aid >From Latakia, Syria, reported by Sputnik, Moscow, 11 February 2016 A new batch of humanitarian aid prepared jointly by Russia and Syria has been delivered to the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, besieged by Daesh militants. The cargo was parachuted by Syrian aviation on Wednesday night from a height of 4,000 meters (over 13,000 feet) to the government-controlled areas of the seventh largest city in Syria. The total weight of the humanitarian cargo was over 50 metric tons. Video: https://youtu.be/yUEJWyq9pT8 "In Russia, cargo is dropped from a height of 600 to 1,000 meters, but this was generally not the case here. The choice of a height of 4 kilometers was due to the extremists possessing air defense systems, as well as a range of other factors," a representative of Russian air forces in Syria told journalists. Syria has been mired in a civil war since 2011, with government forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fighting a number of opposition factions and extremist groups, such as ISIL, also known as Daesh, which is banned in a range of countries, including Russia. According to Siege Watch, a joint initiative of the Netherlands-based aid group PAX and the Washington-based Syria Institute, there are well over 1,000,000 Syrians under siege in various locations in the country, including Deir ez-Zor. So far, over 200 metric tons of Russian-Syrian humanitarian cargo have been delivered to Deir ez-Zor by air. Russia has been launching airstrikes against Daesh targets in Syria at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad since late September 2015. From: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160211/1034556397/deir-ezzor-gets-aid.ht ml -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
