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In the Aleppo area, the L-39 Air Force Air Force is shot down. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Syrian military source.

"L -39 is shot down from the ground. The crew died," the source said.

The Czechoslovak training aircraft L-39 was seriously produced until 1999. It is in service with the Air Force dozens of countries. The crew is one or two people. The aircraft is armed with a gun, bombs, controlled and uncontrollable missiles.

Meanwhile, on Saturday morning, the Syrian army, after night fire from heavy weapons, took control of another district in the eastern part of Aleppo, the Tarik El Bab quarter, BBC reports . Now government forces control the road that passes through the city and connects the Western areas with the airport.

Three weeks after the start of the operation in the city, the army controls about 60 percent of the territory of Aleppo. Residents of the city are massively transferred to quarters occupied by government forces. According to some estimates, about 250 thousand people remain under the control of the rebels. Food and medicines reserves are almost exhausted. Humanitarian organizations are preparing for an even greater influx of refugees.

On Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Mark Airo demanded an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation in Aleppo . "More than ever we need to urgently take measures to terminate hostilities and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid," Airo said.

On the same day, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Syrian government forces managed to radically turn the situation in East Aleppo. “Over the past day, thanks to the very prepared and accurate actions of the Syrian troops, it was possible to radically turn the situation,” the general said. “In fact, half of the territory of the militants engaged in the last years in the eastern part of Aleppo has been completely liberated.”