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Russian planes have not intervened in Syria's Eastern Ghouta: military Moscow, March 16 (AFP) Mar 16, 2018 The Russian military said its planes had not taken part in the Syrian regime's assault in Eastern Ghouta where a monitoring group says airstrikes 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 defence 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 civilians 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 ceasefire calling for an end to the onslaught.
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