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Militants’ pullout from Syria's Douma completed — Russia’s top brass

Since the beginning of the humanitarian operation in Eastern Ghouta, the Russian reconciliation center played a decisive role in organizing evacuation of 67,680 militants and their families

MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Militants’ pullout from the town of Douma on the outskirts of Damascus has completed after more than 21,000 militants and their families were taken by buses out of the area, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"Yesterday, 107 buses carried away the remaining 3,976 militants and their families who wished to leave the town of Douma. The militants’ pullout from the town has been accomplished. A total of 21,145 militants and members of their families have left the town," says the statement citing Major General Yuri Yevtushenko, the chief of the Russian center for reconciliation of conflicting side in Syria.

Since the beginning of the humanitarian operation in Eastern Ghouta, the Russian reconciliation center played a decisive role in organizing evacuation of 67,680 militants and their families, according to the general.