This is a rare glimpse by western media inside the ruined streets of government-controlled Aleppo.
As insurgents battled Assad forces on the edge of the city, dozen journalists were given access to the western part of the city where an estimated 1.5 million people live.
To the east, where rebel forces have until now held Assad's army at bay, up to 275,000 people are believed to be trapped by the war, living in squalor and unable to leave.
Despite western Aleppo being comparatively safe, signs that the war remains close at hand were evident in the sound of distant shelling. At night the streets are dark, with electricity and water supplies damaged.
Crumbled buildings remain, leftover from the five-year battle in Syria and a time years ago when it was the rebels besieging the western part of Aleppo.
Hours after the video was taken, an offensive by Syrian insurgents aimed at the government-held portion of Aleppo killed at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, an opposition monitoring group says.
The insurgents launched the assault eight days ago, hoping to break a months-long government siege on the rebel-held eastern part of the city, which has been subjected to months of devastating Syrian and Russian airstrikes.
The insurgents have seized a district on Aleppo's edge and a nearby village.
The Syrian military said the first three days of the rebel offensive killed more than 80 people. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the different figures.
Rights groups and the UN have sharply criticised the rebels over the shelling of western Aleppo districts, which has killed a number of civilians. Such criticism had mainly been focused on the government and its allies, accusing them of indiscriminate shelling and air strikes on rebel-held areas.
Moscow declared a halt to air strikes on eastern Aleppo on October 18, but Syrian and Russian warplanes have continued to strike around the city's edges and in the surrounding province.
The strikes, which have hit a school and several medical facilities, have killed more than 400 civilians in less than a month and wounded more than 2000 people. The Observatory recorded three civilian deaths in rebel-held Aleppo districts in the past week.
On Friday, a renewed 10-hour Russian offer of a moratorium on air strikes expired. None of the estimated 275,000 residents of eastern Aleppo departed during the unilateral ceasefire, as they had been urged to do by Russia and the Syrian government.
The arrival of a Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, and its heading to the Syrian coast suggests Moscow may intend to escalate its operations.
With reporting from AP