Over 170 Refugees Return To Syria From Lebanon Over Past 24 Hours - Russian Military

Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published October 15, 2018 | 11:37 AM

Over 170 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Refugee Reception, Distribution and Settlement said on Monday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2018) Over 170 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Refugee Reception, Distribution and Settlement said on Monday.

"Over the past day, 175 people left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints]," the center's bulletin said.

A total of 21 internally displaced Syrians returned to their homes over the period.

According to the bulletin, the Russian side carried out one humanitarian operation in the Quneitra province, providing near 1.3 tonnes of food to local residents. Moreover, the Russian Chechen Republic's Akhmad Kadyrov Foundation provided a tonne of bread, school uniform and other goods to civilians Aleppo and Damascus provinces.

Meanwhile, the Syrian army continues to conduct mine clearance operations.

"They found and defused 31 explosive devices including eight improvised explosive devices," the center added.

As the Syrian government has regained control over most of the country's territories that were seized by terrorists, it is now focused on creating favorable conditions for repatriating refugees. Moscow is assisting Damascus in this, along with providing humanitarian aid to civilians and being a guarantor of the ceasefire.