More than a hundred Russian citizens left the country

Aircraft from the Ministry of Emergency Situations took out more than a hundred Russians, mostly women and children, from Syria in two days. After reports of the use of chemical weapons in this country, the authorities of the United States, Great Britain, France and Turkey began talking about the possibility of conducting a military operation.

“An Il-62 plane took off from Latakia to Moscow with 27 Russian citizens on board who wished to leave Syria,” said the official representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Irina Rossius. The day before, 89 people left Syria, 75 of whom were Russian citizens. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, these were mainly women and children, who were accompanied by psychologists on the flight.

The Russians left Syria amid reports of an impending military strike on this country. The possibility of a military operation was discussed after the speech of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who announced on Tuesday night that Washington has irrefutable information about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian authorities.

Meanwhile, as reported by The Cable blog of Foreign Policy magazine, we are talking about a telephone call intercepted by US intelligence agencies. According to the information received, the Syrian Ministry of Defense contacted the military, who reported the use of a rocket containing nerve gas in the eastern suburbs of Damascus.

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