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Only one month separates the Syrians from the end of the five years of Russian intervention in their country, leaving more than 20 thousand dead as a result of the bombing, about half of them civilians.
Although Idlib is in the “de-escalation” zone, according to an agreement between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, last March Russian forces refused to end the 59th month of their intervention in Syria, save with more civilian blood. Where three new men were killed in the bombing of Russian fighter jets at Binnish in the Idlib countryside.
Russia intervened in Syria in September 2015 with an aerial bombing campaign, which contributed to the superiority of the Damascus regime in the equation on the ground.
Thousands of Russian soldiers are deployed in Syria in support of the regime forces.
The Russian military intervention contributed to the survival of Bashar al-Assad at the head of the regime and to the start of a major operation to regain territory controlled by armed factions in the early stages of the conflict.
Since the Russian intervention, the total number of human losses reached 20187, from September 30, 2015 to August 30 of this year, 34 percent of them civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Among those killed by the Russian bombardment were 2,098 children and 1,317 women. In addition to 5,239 men, 5,405 ISIS members, 6,128 militant and Islamic factions, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, and fighters of Arab and foreign nationalities.
The observatory says that Russia uses during its airstrikes “termite”, which consists of aluminum powder and iron oxide, and causes burns because it continues to ignite for about 180 seconds, which are incendiary cluster bombs weighing around 500 kilograms, which they are launched from military aircraft.
Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Institute in Moscow, said: “The conflict in Syria proved to be a good setting for military training, with hundreds of Russian soldiers gaining field experience and testing hundreds of new weapons.”
Human rights groups accused the Russian Air Force of committing war crimes in Syria by launching indiscriminate attacks on schools, hospitals and mosques, and compared what happened to what happened in the Chechen capital Grozny, which was destroyed two decades ago.
In January, the UN Security Council, under pressure from Russia, reduced the number of border crossings authorized to bring humanitarian aid to northern Syria from four to two, both located on the Turkish border.
And on Monday, the United Nations World Food Program warned that some 2.2 million Syrians could join the list of food-insecure citizens in the country ravaged by years of war.
And 9.3 million people are primarily food insecure in Syria, according to the program, which warned in a tweet that “without urgent assistance, 2.2 million more people could slide into hunger and poverty.”
