Children are seen in a shelter in the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, February 27, 2018. REUTERS/ Bassam Khabieh

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian military said on Thursday that civilians in Syria’s rebel-held eastern Ghouta had made numerous requests to be evacuated, the TASS news agency reported, citing Russian Major-General Vladimir Zolotukhin speaking to reporters in Damascus.

TASS cited Zolotukhin as saying that rebels were continuing to shell the evacuation corridor from eastern Ghouta.