The battle of Aleppo is over, the Syrian regime and the Russia that supports it have declared it over. And the truce, to allow for the evacuation of fighters and civilians, has instead been broken. The news coming from the city under siege for months is dramatic, for what appears to be a humanitarian tragedy without borders. Osama Abu Zayd, legal adviser to the Free Syrian Army, specified that the truce would begin yesterday evening. The agreement was confirmed by Russia.
Meanwhile, however, various sources say that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's loyalist forces have killed dozens of civilians, including women and children, in the houses of eastern Aleppo. In particular, the UN denunciation in Geneva speaks of a "total lack of humanity".
But from Damascus they only let it be known that the "anti-terrorist" operation by the Syrian military "is over" and that the forces loyal to Assad now have "full control of the eastern area of Aleppo", where the last pockets of rebel resistance were located in the city.
