Smoke rises following a reported air strike in the rebel-held Syrian town of Mudayra, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus, on January 28, 2018. / AFP / ABDULMONAM EASSA
MOSCOW: Russia's military called on Damascus to hold direct talks with Syrian opposition groups in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta so the sick could be evacuated, RIA news said on Monday, citing Russia's defence ministry.
International concern has been rising over the fate of 400,000 people living in besieged, rebel-held eastern Ghouta as acute food and medicine shortages have contributed to what the United Nations has called the worst malnutrition of the war. (Writing by Polina Ivanova; Editing by Vladimir Soldatkin)
