Pro-regime forces have made significant advances on Aleppo, Sunday, Reuters reports. Both Syrian military forces and their allies made progress on opposition held areas of the contested city as part of their intense campaign on the city.
While Russian planes provided air cover Iranian-backed fighters as well as Syrian troops offered opposition fighters the opportunity to retreat with incentive of aid in return.
According to a statement by the Syrian state media, SANA:
The army high command calls on all armed fighters in the eastern neighbourhood of Aleppo to leave these neighbourhoods and let civilian residents live their normal lives
In response to the campaign British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson commented
It is the continuing savagery of the Assad regime against the people of Aleppo and the complicity of the Russians in committing what are patently war crimes – bombing hospitals, when they know they are hospitals and nothing but hospitals – that is making it impossible for peace negotiations to resume
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, also spoke on the phone.
According the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights – a UK based group that reports on the civil war – pro-regime forces approached from the Handarat refugee camp north Aleppo, and they had taken the Kindi hospital and parts of the Shuqaif industrial area.