Seven year old girl and mum tweet about their terror as helicopter dropped messages telling of impending destruction
RUSSIA has begun the countdown for their enormous airstrikes on Aleppo by dropping menacing leaflets on trapped residents - warning they will be “destroyed” if they stay.
Sun Online understands the Russian aircraft have been dropping leaflets in Arabic which are said to warn “if you don’t evacuate these areas soon you will be destroyed”.
Seven-year-old Bana Alabed and her mum Fatemah, who have been tweeting to the world about their horrifying ordeal in the besieged Aleppo, are petrified about what the face in the coming hours.
Tweeting yesterday, Fatemah said: “Leaflets dropped by Russia tomorrow is our last chance.
"If we don't get out tomorrow, don't know if we will live or die Pray for us.-Fatemah”
Meanwhile, lurking off the coast are three cruise-missile armed submarines which have joined a Russian aircraft carrier battle group near the coast of Syria ahead of an impending “blitz”.
NATO reports it has been tracking two Akula (Shark) class nuclear-powered attack submarines and a diesel-engined Kilo-class submarine as they moved to join up with the mighty aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.
But before they unleash their firepower on Aleppo, Russia wants to show it gave people the chance to go before the end of the ceasefire at 7pm local time.
The livestream videos are from web cameras installed along “humanitarian corridors” on the western part of the Castello Road in Aleppo as well as real time drone footage.
But a similar, three-day pause last month ended with only a handful of people leaving the besieged rebel-held east of the city.
And this morning webcams showed little sign of mass exodus from the besieged city.
One cams showed barrels painted with the Syrian flag next to a large photograph of President Bashar al-Assad propped up by sandbags.
Another filmed waiting ambulances while the third drone cam showed an empty road.
The rebels dismissed the latest ceasefire as a ploy by Moscow to deflect international criticism of the high civilian death toll from its bombing campaign.
"This announcement is worthless... We don't trust the Russians or any of their cheap initiatives," said Yasser al-Youssef, a politburo member of the Nureddin al-Zinki rebel brigade in Aleppo.
Hundreds of people have been killed in the rebel-held sector since the army launched an offensive to recapture it in September.
The death toll has drawn international condemnation of both Damascus and Moscow. The European Union said Russian actions "may amount to war crimes".
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