Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on March 20 that 65 percent of territory in Syria’s eastern Ghouta had been “liberated from terrorists,” the RIA news agency reported.
Reuters: Russia says 65 percent of Syria’s eastern Ghouta is free of rebels
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Smoke rises from buildings following bombardment on the village of Mesraba in the rebel-held besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 19, 2018.Heavy Syrian bombardment killed dozens of civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault.
