For the first time since Russia joined the Syrian battlefield last September, ground troops have been deployed near the strategic city of Aleppo in the Syrian north.
Their aim is to provide logistic support in the upcoming major battle for Aleppo.
Over the past 48-hours, six hundred Russian special forces have landed at the Hmaymeem Airbase on the Syrian coast and been transferred to Al Safira, a city in the Aleppo governorate strategically located on the Damascus-Aleppo Highway. From there they will be placed along the Castello Road, formerly the main lifeline for the Syrian Opposition from Turkey, helping channel arms, money, and food to Turkish-backed militants in eastern Aleppo.
That road has been fully seized by the Syrian Army, with strong Russian air cover, since mid-July.
It will now be used to bring UN aid to war-torn Aleppo; both the opposition held eastern part of the city, with its 200,000 inhabitants, and regime-held western Aleppo, with its 1.2 million residents.
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