BEIRUT -- Russian state-run media say three Russian officers are reported to have been wounded by gunfire along one of the humanitarian corridors leading out of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.

Thursday's reports come on the first day of a break in the fighting in Aleppo called by Russia and Syria.

State news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti cited Russia's so-called "reconciliation center" in Syria as saying that the three officers were hit while manning a corridor checkpoint in the al-Masharka neighborhood.

The reports say they were taken to a Russian air base in Syria and that their injuries are not life-threatening.

Separately, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told U.S. counterpart John Kerry that militants have been violating the pause in the fighting, meant to allow suffering civilians to leave the city and also offer safe passage for the rebels.

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