According to the Human Rights Monitoring Center, during the past week 500 civilians have died as a result of constant bombardment, more than 100 of them are children under 16 years old.
Another 2,200 people were hospitalized.
Eastern Guta remains the last enclave of anti-Assad opposition on the way to the cities of Idlib.
At the moment, the city hostages were 400 thousand people - without water, food, electricity and the necessary drugs. Massive bombardments prevent rescuers from reaching the wounded, and humanitarian organizations create "corridors of life" for the evacuation of civilians.
Only for today as a result of air raids 21 people were killed.
As reported in the "URA-Inform", today, February 24, at 19:00 in Kiev, representatives of UN Security Council member countries will try to vote for the adoption of a new resolution on Syria.