Aleppo, which was once Syria’s largest city, is now divided between rebel control in the east and government control in the west.
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United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura said the world body had not been consulted on Russia’s initiative.
The plan needed to include regular pauses in the fighting to get people out and aid in, said De Mistura.
On Friday, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura urged Russian Federation to let the United Nations take charge of the corridors as a reassurance to the beleaguered population.
“How can you expect people to want to walk through a corridor, thousands of them, while there is shelling, bombing fighting?”
“The clock is ticking for the Aleppo population”, he said.
The Russian plan was “not a substitute for allowing impartial humanitarian relief for civilians who remain in opposition-held areas of the city or other besieged areas, many of whom will be sceptical about government promises”, it said. “But humanitarian corridors need to be well and carefully planned, and have to be implemented with the consent of parties on all sides”.
Syrian state media are reporting that government forces have taken another neighborhood from rebels in the contested northern city of Aleppo.
Rights groups said opening safe passages to civilians trapped in eastern Aleppo city won’t avert a catastrophe and does not give Syrian and Russian forces carte blanche to further blockade the opposition-controlled territory.
He said that if the United Nations allows residents to travel safely to other opposition held-areas, this could reassure people that it is safe to leave and would reduce the number of people killed in the siege or from airstrikes.
It also reported that ISIS has executed 24 civilians in a village close to Manbij.
“The regime uses massive, indiscriminate force to brutalise civilians to force them to kneel or reject the rebel groups”, he added.
A father of two – the youngest a girl of 9 months – he said despite the risk of maltreatment and even arrest, he is urging his mother, wife and sister to use the safe passages to leave the city.
UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a nearby civil defence building was also damaged.
Abu Ans, the administration manager of a besieged hospital, said Thursday that the situation was “very bad”.
Save the Children says the maternity hospital is the only such facility in the area, with the next facility some 70 kilometers (44 miles) away.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military has announced on 27 July a formal enquiry into a 19 July airstrike in a village near Manbij, Northern Syria, that is being called by observers as the worst attack on civilians in its two year battle against Islamic State (Isis).
Meanwhile the U.S. says it is assessing if a coalition strike killed civilians. It says casualties were reported but it had no immediate figures. The U.S. military acknowledged July 28 that there may have been civilian deaths.
The army, backed by allied militia forces and air support from Syrian and Russian jets, has taken more ground on the northern edge of the city, around the Castello road which leads out towards Turkey.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that the militants retook the village of al-Bouweir from the Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday.
