THANKS FOR PUTINS AID TO WAR CRIMINALS
Damascus thanks Russia for 15-ton aid shipment to Latakia
Syrian state media announced Wednesday that a Russian plane had delivered 15 tons of food and medical aid to the Bassel al-Assad airport in Syria’s northwestern Latakia province, noting that the aid was “presented by the Russian people to the Syrian people” who had been affected by “terroristm.” Opposition media has shown little interest in the shipment. “I imagine this isn’t the first time this has happened,” said a Damascus-based citizen journalist who goes by Abu Munzer in comments to Syria Direct Wednesday.
“The aid will be distributed to the families of those killed from regime forces and armed groups, and a portion of it will be stolen and sold, as usual,” Munzer added. He explained that the shipment had likely arrived in Latakia rather than Damascus because of the high proportion of pro-Assad fighters hailing from Syria’s Mediterranean coast, the ancestral home of Assad’s Alawite sect.