The United Nations envoy to Syria said Thursday that Russia told the UN it will stop bombing eastern Aleppo for 11 hours a day for four days, but that is not enough to trigger a wider deal to have militants leave the besieged Syrian warzone.

Staffan de Mistura said he welcomed the daily pauses to enable medical evacuations but the ceasefire package also required militants from the banned Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Al-Nusra Front) group to agree to leave the city and the Syrian government to guarantee the local administration would remain in charge, Reuters reported.

UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said he hoped the first of “several hundred” sick and wounded would be brought out on Friday to either government-held western Aleppo or terrorist-held Idlib, according to their choice.

The UN wanted to extend the pauses until Monday and said there was still no deal to get food into the besieged zone.

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