V. Brandi — Humanitarian fervor arises from the fact that the jihadists besieging Aleppo are getting beat

Well, the words used by our regime journalists shamelessly say the exact opposite of reality. According to them (and according to the stuff they are fed) it would be the national army that "advances towards Aleppo" to "reconquer" it, as if the city was in the hands of insurgents and foreign mercenaries, and not instead besieged for over three years by the jihadists. And the Aleppo residents are fleeing to Turkey, "terrified by Russian bombing."
Actually within the city limits the fighting isn't going on anymore. The jihadist groups and mercenaries who had infiltrated the city are surrounded and have only the prospect of surrender or reaching an agreement with the government like to the one reached by jihadists who were surrounded in an isolated district of Homs and were escorted to the Turkish border with the buses provided by the government.…

Well, the words used by our regime journalists shamelessly say the exact opposite of reality. According to them (and according to the stuff they are fed) it would be the national army that "advances towards Aleppo" to "reconquer" it, as if the city was in the hands of insurgents and foreign mercenaries, and not instead besieged for over three years by the jihadists. And the Aleppo residents are fleeing to Turkey, "terrified by Russian bombing."

Actually within the city limits the fighting isn't going on anymore. The jihadist groups and mercenaries who had infiltrated the city are surrounded and have only the prospect of surrender or reaching an agreement with the government like to the one reached by jihadists who were surrounded in an isolated district of Homs and were escorted to the Turkish border with the buses provided by the government.

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Humanitarian fervor arises from the fact that the jihadists besieging Aleppo are getting beat
V. Brandi, in CIVG
Translated from Italian by Tom Winter