MOSCOW, November 3. /TASS/. Russia has sent some 100,000 tonnes of wheat as a humanitarian aid to Syria, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev told TASS on Tuesday.

"Russia’s Unified Grain Company sent some 100,000 tonnes of soft red winter wheat [fourth-class wheat] from the intervention fund," Tkachev said.

The Russian United Grain Company is a governmental organisation dealing with grain market.