Russia Flies Food Aid to Ally Syria
Around 10 tonnes of Russian food aid and blankets arrived Tuesday in Syria, where an uprising against the regime of Moscow ally prepared to enter its third year, state news agency SANA reported.
"A Russian plane landed at Bassel Assad airport in (the coastal province of) Latakia on Tuesday, carrying 10 tonnes of food aid and blankets," said SANA.
Tuesday's was the fifth aid shipment from Russia, the agency said, citing an unnamed Russian diplomat.
Moscow is one of the only bakers of the government in Syria, where the U.N. says more than 70,000 people have been killed in an uprising launched two years ago.
Russia and China have blocked three proposals for U.N. Security Council sanctions against Assad's regime.
Source: Agence France Presse
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