MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th October, 2018) A UN-Red Cross mission to bring aid to displaced people in the Rukban camp in south Syria was cancelled over lack of security guarantees in the US-controlled area, the Russian military said Saturday.
"The inability of the US side to live up to its commitment to provide security in the 55-kilometer [34-mile] area around its base in At Tanf stopped the convoy from going. UN officials said the delivery had been cancelled over lack of security guarantees," Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko said in a bulletin.�
Savchenko said the area around At Tanf was swarming with "a large number of armed and uncontrolled militants who can stage any manner of provocation," making shipments through the zone to the camp on the border with Jordan "extremely dangerous" for aid workers.
