Russia's decision to stop bombing the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo ahead of an eight-hour truce on Thursday is a "manifestation of goodwill", the Kremlin said.
"This is an obvious continuation of Russian efforts, on the one hand, to fight terrorists in Syria, and on the other, to unblock the situation in Aleppo," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.
"It is exclusively a manifestation of goodwill by the Russian military."
