LATAKIA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th January, 2019) Russian military has held two humanitarian actions in southwestern Syria, delivering warm clothes and school stationery to Eastern Ghouta and also providing the residents of the Daraa Province with 500 food sets, Eduard Titov, a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation, said on Sunday.
"Today, we have carried out a humanitarian action in Daraa Province's Sheikh Maskin settlement, where we delivered warm clothes and school stationary � a total of 1,000 sets. We have also delivered 500 food sets to the residents of Arbin [town located in Eastern Ghouta]," Titov told reporters.
He specified that the Russian Chechen Republic's Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation had contributed to the humanitarian action in Sheikh Maskin. Apart from warm clothes, towels and blankets have been distributed.
Ziyad Sabsabi, the representative of the Chechen Republic in Russia's Federation Council, voiced belief that this action was a proof that Russia favored peace in Syria "like no one else."
"As well as the Syrian government, we want people to live in peace instead of learning what the horror of war is," Sabsabi, who is currently in Sheikh Maskin, told reporters.
Ilias Nemy, a senior priest at a church in Arbin, told Sputnik that now that Eastern Ghouta was freed from terrorists, Christians were repatriating actively.
Russia has been long assisting Syria, which has been engulfed in a state of civil war since 2011, being a guarantor of the ceasefire, assisting terrorism fight, and providing humanitarian aid to civilians.
