Russian Foreign Ministry: The terrorists in Idlib are preventing the people from leaving through the humanitarian corridors and using them as hostages

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The Russian Foreign Ministry affirmed that terrorists in Idlib continue to deny the people of humanitarian aid, prevent them from leaving the humanitarian corridors, and hold them hostage.

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said during a session of the Security Council today via video that the humanitarian aid does not reach the people who deserve it in the city of Idlib. Aid and its inability to control the matter due to lack of access to northwestern Syria.

Vershinin asserted that the terrorists are hijacking civilians ’food and seizing all humanitarian aid provided to them.

Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Bassam Sabbagh, stressed during the session that Syria and its commitment to deliver humanitarian aid to all regions, including across borders, stresses the importance of the humanitarian corridors that are opened in cooperation with Russian friends, including the corridor that it recently opened in Saraqib and condemns at the same time. Terrorist organizations prevent our people in Idlib from going through these humanitarian corridors and holding them as hostages and human shields, and considers some countries 'deliberate neglect of these practices, which constitute a violation of international humanitarian law, in support of the terrorist organizations' continued control of Idlib.