KUBINKA (Moscow region). Aug 25 (Interfax) - Russian military doctors have provided medical care to 46,000 civilians in Syria over the past three months, Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Russian Armed Forces' group of forces in Syria, said.
Russia's efforts to maintain the truce in Syria have helped stabilize the situation in the country's central and southern districts, he said at a roundtable on the sidelines of the Army 2017 international military-technical forum on Friday.
"A total of 649 truce agreements have been signed in the past three months. The overall number of populated localities engaged in the reconciliation process has reached 2,207. As many as 297 humanitarian missions have been carried out. The local population received more than 274 tonnes of food and essential items in the process," Surovikin said.
"Doctors from the Russian Defense Ministry's hospital provided medical aid to over 46,000 civilians," he said.
Russian transport airplanes air-dropped 376 tonnes of food provided by the United Nations into the city of Deir ez-Zor, besieged by militants of Islamic State (banned in Russia), in the beginning of August, Surovikin said.