Russian bombings in Syria risk "cutting off" communities- aid agencies

Russian bombings in Syria risk "cutting off" communities- aid agencies
Humanitarian access to north-western Syria could be cut off unless Russia halts its aerial bombardment of routes supplying hundreds of thousands of people with food and water, aid workers warned ahead of an international donor conference on Thursday, Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

The alarm was sounded by an international aid agency, exclusively to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, as an Assad regime offensive, backed by heavy Russian air strikes, threatened to cut opposition supply lines from Turkey into the northern city of Aleppo earlier this week.

European governments and EU institutions in Brussels are seeking to respond to a call by Britain, Germany and Norway, which are hosting the gathering, along with the United Nations and Kuwait, to double humanitarian aid to the region.

U.N. agencies are appealing for a total of $7.73 billion to cope with Syria’s needs this year, with a further $1.2 billion required by regional governments for their own plans to deal with the impact of Syria’s conflict, Sharenet reported.

Civilians in the governorate of Aleppo and in the neighbouring province, Idlib, holding out in what is left of their homes, schools, shops and bakeries, rely on humanitarian aid brought in through two designated crossing points from Turkey.

In an internal report, the aid agency said the Russian air force was still targeting the opposition groups behind frontlines in what might be part of Assad strategy aimed at wresting control of the crossing points from the opposition, Netscape said.

"This would constitute a significant victory for Assad as it would essentially cut opposition-held territory off from Turkey," the aid agency said in the report seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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