Russian top diplomat says humanitarian situation in Mosul much worse than in Aleppo

Russian Politics & Diplomacy February 28, 2017, 15:23

BISHKEK, February 28. /TASS/. The humanitarian situation in Iraq’s Mosul is much worse than it was in Syria’s eastern Aleppo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters. According to him, Russia has been drawing its western counterparts’ attention to this fact.

"We have been reminding our western counterparts about it because the humanitarian situation there is much worse than it was in eastern Aleppo," Lavrov said commenting on the coverage the situation in Mosul has been getting in the world media.

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