MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) - Over 12,500 Aleppo residents sought help from doctors at the Russian military hospital set up in the city, the Russian Armed Forces General Staff's Main Operational Directorate chief Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi said.
"Humanitarian actions are conducted in the city of Aleppo daily: civilian residents are being given food rations and hot meals. Over 12,500 people have requested medical assistance from the doctors at a Russian Defense Ministry hospital set up in the city," Rudskoi said at a briefing in Moscow on Tuesday.
Efforts continue to restore houses and infrastructure in the city, he said.
"Over 4,000 residents have returned to their homes over the past month," Rudskoi said.
The liberation of the town of Hafs near Lake Assad from Islamic State (a terror group banned in Russia) militants enabled a resumption of the drinking water supply to Aleppo, he said.
According to the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, the Russian reconciliation center on Monday sent another humanitarian convoy to the town of Manbij.
"Around 17 tonnes of flour, sugar, rice, canned meat and fish were delivered to the refugee camps around the town. During the humanitarian action, Russian army medics provided 282 civilians with medical assistance," Rudskoi said.