s killed 80 civilians in rebel-held zones on Friday."The claims of the SOHR (Syrian Observatory of Human Rights)... on the so-called Russian strikes in Eastern Ghouta are only one more piece of ’fake’ (news)," Russia’s defense ministry said, according to news agencies.
"Russian aviation has no military mission in Eastern Ghouta and has not undertaken any" in this region, it added.
The British-based Observatory, which says it determines whose planes carry out raids according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions used, said at least 76 non-combatants were killed in Russian air strikes on the southwestern Ghouta pocket on Friday.
A month-long government offensive on the rebel-held enclave on the outskirts of Damascus has killed at least 1,346 civilians, according to the Observatory, despite a United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
cease-fire calling for an end to the onslaught.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder.
Ow!he exclaimed, with feeling......
thousands of civilians poured out of Eastern Ghouta on Thursday after a month-long bombardment brought the Syrian regime closer to recapturing the devastated rebel enclave close to Damascus. UN special envoy to Syria Staffane De Mistura said that UN teams were not coordination the civilian evacuation from eastern Ghouta towns.