Russian airstrikes killed 25 people on Wednesday and destroyed 10 vehicles carrying humanitarian aid during an attack on two residential areas of Syria's opposition-held northern Aleppo province.
Russian warplanes struck northern Aleppo's Kafr Nasih and Ihris districts, killing 25 people -- including children and women -- and injuring a number of others, civil defense officials told Anadolu Agency.
The injured were taken to hospitals in the neighboring Azaz and Tel Rifat districts and to hospitals in next-door Turkey, officials said.
Russian warplanes have also struck northern Aleppo's Ihris, Jarez, Kafra and Kafr Nasih districts, which are located on the frontlines between moderate opposition forces and the Daesh militant group, Mustafa Abu Rasheed, a member of a local coordination committee, told Anadolu Agency.
Syria's local coordination committees, which consist of local activists opposed to the Assad regime, frequently publish news via social-media websites.
According to Abu Rasheed, several opposition fighters were killed in the Russian airstrikes.
Rasheed added that opposition forces had managed to retake the village of Jarez in northern Aleppo from Daesh, despite Russian air support for the latter.
"Russia is now publicly supporting Daesh and the PYD [the terrorist PKK organization's Syrian affiliate] in northern Aleppo," he asserted.
Meanwhile, areas in Syria's Turkmen region of Bayırbucak have seen airstrikes from the regime of Bashar al-Assad with Russian support.
Thousands of Turkmen, a Turkic ethnic group, have been displaced by the fighting around Bayırbucak. Around 2,000 have recently sought shelter in Turkey.
Many Turkmens who left their villages are trying to live in and around Yamadi village near the Turkish border in makeshift tents.
Over the last several days, approximately 2,000 Syrian Turkmen, fleeing the violence in their home country, have reportedly arrived in southern Turkey.
Turkmen are a Turkic ethnic group based largely in Syria and Iraq, where they live alongside large Arab and Kurdish populations. The Turkmen community, which includes both Sunni and Shia Muslims, shares close cultural affinities with the Turkish people.
Since Sept. 30, Russia - an ally of the Assad regime - has indiscriminately targeted civilian areas and humanitarian facilities in Syria, leading to numerous civilian casualties, according to U.S. officials.
According to a report released this week by two U.K.-based human rights groups, Russian airstrikes over the past two months have killed 485 civilians in Syria and more than 1,000 militants from various armed opposition groups.
While the Kremlin says its airstrikes in Syria are aimed primarily at the Daesh militant group, some members of the western NATO alliance say Russia is targeting moderate opposition groups opposed to Assad.
