The Russian Defence Ministry has announced that its first
ever attack on Syria from an aircraft carrier is to take place imminently.
Fighter jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov and heavily armed
escort ships are to bomb anti-Syrian government positions in the beleaguered
city of Aleppo in the coming hours.
"The attacks are to hit the long-range approaches to
the city," a Defence Ministry spokesman was quoted by the Interfax news
agency as saying.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stresses however that there
would be no airstrikes directly on the embattled eastern parts of the city.
Airstrikes on rebel-held areas in Syria's north-western
province of Idlib killed at least 20 people
on Tuesday, among them children, a monitoring group said.
The Britain-based Syrian Obervatory for Human Rights said
airstrikes hit Khan Sheikhoun and Barabo in south and south-western Idlib.
Eleven people were killed in Barabo and nine, among them
seven children and two pregnant women, were killed in Khan Sheikhoun, the
monitoring group said.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the observatory, said the strike
hit a street where children were playing. "Three of the dead children were
from one family," he added.
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