Lavrov hopes for Aleppo truce ‘in the next few hours’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says after talks with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura Tuesday he hopes that a cessation of hostilities could be announced in Aleppo already “in the next few hours.”

“I am hoping that in the near future, maybe even in the next few hours such a decision will be announced,” Lavrov tells reporters after talks with the UN envoy in Moscow.

AFP

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