“Several more planes are being prepared to deliver humanitarian aid, in particular, there will be another plane from Russia tonight with the necessary assistance to transfer to the victims,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, he said that the Russian Emergencies Ministry had completed a rescue operation in Syria after the earthquake.

On February 11, Deputy Head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Major General Oleg Yegorov, said that the Russian military had organized the distribution of 45.9 tons of humanitarian aid to those in need after the earthquake in the SAR.