“Today, in the port of Tartus, humanitarian aid with a volume of more than 170 tons is loaded onto road transport, with subsequent delivery to three departments of the Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties in Zaevfrat. The route of the automobile convoy is more than one and a half thousand kilometers one way, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Gerasimov noted that humanitarian aid will be delivered to three settlements and transferred to the local administration.

In mid-April, Russia transferred the first batch of aid to Syria to combat the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19.