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Reuters: Kremlin rejects allegations Russia behind civilian deaths in Syria’s Ghouta

Published Feb. 21, 2018 at 5:51 pm

A Syrian woman and children run for cover amid the rubble of buildings following government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 19, 2018.Heavy Syrian bombardment killed 44 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault. / AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSA

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The Kremlin said on Feb. 21 that Western allegations the Russian Air Force was responsible for civilian deaths in the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus were groundless.

Pro-government forces pounded eastern Ghouta on Feb. 20, in a surge of violence that a war monitor said had killed at least 250 people since February 18 night.