The Russian military said late on March 6 that it had helped evacuate 13 civilians from Syria’s eastern Ghouta by putting them on returning trucks that had brought aid to the rebel-held area near Damascus.
Aid trucks reached Syria’s eastern Ghouta region on March 5 for the first time since the start of one of the war’s deadliest assaults, but the government stripped some medical supplies from the convoy and pressed on with its air and ground assault.
