Russia declares three-hour daily ceasefire in Aleppo

TIL Desk/World/Moscow-Russia’s defence ministry has said it would hold fire around Syria’s ravaged city of Aleppo for three hours each day to allow humanitarian aid in, an initiative the UN said is insufficient to meet the city’s needs.

“To guarantee total security for the convoys to Aleppo there will be humanitarian windows established from 1000 to 1300 local time starting tomorrow during which all military hostilities, aviation strikes and artillery strikes will be halted,” Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy of the Russian army’s general staff told.

The pause would take place daily from Thursday from 0700 GMT to 1000 GMT, although Rudskoy did not specify how many days it would continue. Shortly after Moscow’s announcement, the United Nations’ top aid official said that halting fire for three hours a day would not be enough to ensure that civilians’ humanitarian needs are met.