They estimate that it could be a Russian attack against the rebels in the city while the Syrian Army launches a counterattack
MADRID, 30 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 16 people have died and another 20 have been injured as a result of a bombing that occurred this Saturday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, scene in the last hours of a major offensive by opposition forces to the Syrian Government led by the jihadist group Hayat. Tahrir al Sham (HTS) and allies in the country’s second most important city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has estimated that the attack could have been carried out by Russian warplanes, given the existing alliance between Moscow and the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, but the Russian Army has not commented on the matter.
Yes, the Syrian Army has done so in recent hours, which, after announcing a “redeployment” of its forces due to the opposition advance, now assures that it is undertaking “powerful attacks” in the area to prevent “the terrorists from shoring up their positions.” .
Russia, according to the Observatory, has been carrying out attacks on rebel positions in the country for hours to try to stop an offensive that Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov described on Friday as “an attack on Syrian sovereignty.”
“We are in favor of the Syrian authorities bringing order to the area and restoring constitutional order as quickly as possible,” the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, and according to the Observatory, at least 327 people have died, including civilians and elements of the sides in combat, since the beginning four days ago of the opposition offensive in Idlib and Aleppo, which the rebels describe as operation ” Deterrence of Aggression”, among them a hundred Syrian soldiers and allied forces and 155 HTS jihadists. The number of civilian deaths is around 50 due to attacks by both sides.