“I am waiting for departure across the front line to the northwest, where, as we were told, the consequences are even worse,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that about 8.5 thousand people died as a result of the earthquake in Syria.

Seismologist Alexander Gulyaev, in an interview with FAN, recalled that aftershocks after an earthquake can last more than six months, but it is rather difficult to predict their occurrence.