Ceasefire which has been announced by Russia on Wednesday has started today at 09 a.m. local time and will last for the next 10 hours. This period of time is aimed at giving rebels and civilians an opportunity to leave the East part of the city of Aleppo without the fear of getting caught in the crossfire. Russian army committed to open a safe humanitarian corridors which would allow people to get out of the beset town.
However, opposition is very skeptical about the authenticity and loftiness of the alleged truce. Rebels rejected the ceasefire because they perceive Russian move as a deception of the Syrian regime.
According to the source of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in UK, several fights between rebels and regime soldiers have broke out at a different fronts on Thursday night. The opposition is not going to surrender to the President’s Bashar al-Assad army so easily.
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