Russia is close to joining forces with the United States around Syria's ravaged second city of Aleppo, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in comments aired Monday.
"Step by step we are getting closer to the situation in which -- and I'm only speaking about Aleppo here -- we will be able to begin battling together so that there is peace on this territory," Shoigu told Rossiya 24 television.
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