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Russian convoy delivers humanitarian aid to village in Syria's Manbij

The reconciliation center’s staff members are planning to visit villages near Manbij in the coming days

MANBIJ/Syria/, January 16. /TASS/. Russia’s humanitarian convoy has delivered food supplies to the village of Saidiya near the Manbij area, in the northeast of Syria’s Aleppo Governorate, Pavel Matreninsky, a spokesman for the Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides, told reporters.

"We have carried out another effort to provide the people of the Syrian Arab Republic with humanitarian assistance, this is a new area in the north of Manbij. For today’s effort we have prepared 500 humanitarian food packages, including canned meat, sugar, flour, rice and tea and 300 warm blankets for children, which are vital during the cold season. We have also brought bread because bakeries and bread plants are not working here," Matreninsky said.

The reconciliation center’s staff members are planning to visit villages near Manbij in the coming days and meet with the elders and village leaders and find out where humanitarian aid is needed first.

In late December, the Syrian army units took up positions around Manbij some 85 km from Aleppo. The Syrian General Staff said that the Syrian troops were sent to Manbij in response to a call of the population and also in order to meet the task of restoring state sovereignty over the entire country’s territory.

On January 2, some 400 Kurdish fighters were withdrawn from Manbij. The SANA news agency reported that the Kurdish troops left the city in line with a bilateral agreement on normalizing the situation in the northern regions of Syria. Russia’s military police also continue patrolling the Manbij area.