According to Jean-Clement Jeanbart, a Catholic archbishop in the city, Syrians are “feeling relaxed” about Moscow’s air strikes.
He said people were “generally feeling positive” about the Russian pounding of ISIS targets, saying it gave them fresh hope of an end to the four-year civil war.
He added: “Things have begun to change since the Russians are bombing ISIS.”
The archbishop, who has warned about the threat of a Christian annihilation at the hands of jihadi factions, also called on the British government to intervene militarily.
He said: “Please, I ask you, I beseech you to have another look at our situation to see what is underneath, what is happening.
“It is terrible for us to see all the marvellous things we had destroyed for pretend democracy and freedom. Our country was fighting for 50-60 years to become a secularist regime, a pluralistic country, to give citizens their rights of religion and freedom of choice … and you are destroying this work and pushing on us fundamental jihadis who want to kill everyone who is not similar to them.”
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