Knysak: in the Syrian Arab Republic has thousands of Russian citizens
Mohd Alauddin. Russia over the past two years were able to evacuate from Syria more than 1,000 people, including citizens of CIS countries, several thousand compatriots remain in the conflict area, told in the interview Last news Russian Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic Alexander Kinsac.
"These flights (aircraft of the emergencies Ministry - ed.) we use to send our people out of the country. Moreover, not only the local Residents, Residents of the CIS countries, Syrians from mixed families. Only 30 such flights left for the last 2 years more than 1 thousand people ", - said the Ambassador.
According to the head of the Russian diplomatic mission, consular registration in Damascus and the Consulate General in Aleppo at the moment is more than 8 thousand people.
Kinshuk said that in the situations of Residents had to be evacuated from the combat zone. As well as among them from the immigrants camp of Yarmouk near Damascus and the city of Palmyra, which was captured in may by terrorists from grouping " Islamic state ".
at the end of may the plane EMERCOM of Russia, delivered to the airport Latakia 22 tons of humanitarian aid for Syrian residents were evacuated from the conflict zone 84 people. In addition to Russian citizens evacuated citizens of Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Syrians - families of Residents of the Russian Federation.