The east of Aleppo is in desperate need of aid after weeks of heavy fighting and a government siege that has lasted most of the past two months, with no aid entering since early July.
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The government-held side of the contested city of Aleppo is home to a large Christian minority.
Despite the on-going cease-fire, which went into effect this week following a U.S.
Mr Bogdanov said the current deal was “the only plan on the table”.
Savchenko said opposition forces were yet to pull back from the road.
A U.S. -Russia-brokered cease-fire in Syria that began on Monday is meant to help stage the ground for peace talks to end Syria’s devastating civil war, now in its sixth year.
United Nations officials have said they are awaiting word from Russian Federation and Syrian combatants on both sides that security and monitoring are in place to allow deliveries of humanitarian aid into Aleppo.
The UN had hoped that 40 trucks of food – enough to feed 80,000 people for one month – could be delivered to east Aleppo as soon as possible.
Jan Egeland, de Mistura’s senior adviser, urged the Syrian government to give United Nations trucks the access they needed.
In addition to eastern Aleppo, UN convoys, if they receive permits, are ready to go to places like Moadameya, to Al-Waer, to Talbiseh to Douma, to all of the besieged areas close to Damascus, close to Homs, and elsewhere, he explained.
Yet 40 trucks full of humanitarian aid, en-route to Aleppo, have been halted at the Turkish border, according to United Nations special envoy, Staffan de Mistura.
Convoys filled with lifesaving aid stand idle on the Syria-Turkish border.
Gatilov’s remarks were reported on Thursday by the Interfax news agency.
State television called the incident a violation of the ceasefire.
Among them was continued violence, and objections from other parties on the ground.
-Russian brokered deal behind a temporary ceasefire in Syria will not be released to the public. It also said three shells were fired at the government-held southern village of Hadar.
Another provision of the deal faltered on September 16 when Syrian government forces returned to their positions along the Castello Road, where they previously had withdrawn under an agreement to clear the way for civilians and aid to move alongthe key thoroughfare.
The cease-fire that went into effect Monday is part of a U.S. -Russia agreement that also calls for allowing humanitarian aid to reach besieged areas in Aleppo.
“Mutual recriminations are being made”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Friday. Kerry called the delays in assistance to Aleppo “repeated” and “unacceptable” and said Russian Federation must press Syrian President Bashar Assad to allow deliveries. But that is not happening, he said.
The UN says Syria has to issue a letter authorizing aid delivery to Aleppo.
Syrian state media said rebels violated the ceasefire by shelling government-held areas in the eastern Damascus neighborhood of Qaboun, wounding three people.
The truce does not include the Islamic State group, and the US -led coalition, Russian Federation and Syrian government forces have all been carrying out strikes against the extremist group.
Two children were among 3 civilians killed in air strikes Friday on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Cook described him as “one of ISIL’s most senior leaders” and a close associate of Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, the ISIS spokesman killed on August 30.
Obama was due to gather top national security aides later Friday with the shaky ceasefire set to dominate a meeting ostensibly about countering the Islamic State group.
Russia, critics say, has repeatedly used talks to blunt criticism of its support of Mr Assad, sow doubt among U.S. allies on the ground and buy time for Syrian forces to improve their position.
Assad has been accused of war crimes in the Syrian civil war and his opponents inside and outside the country have insisted that his departure is a prerequisite for a peace settlement.
Humanitarian access hinges on control of the Castello Road, the main route into the besieged rebel-held part and a major frontline in the war, but so far there has been no progress towards opening it. At the same time, the deputy chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, Sergey Kapitsyn, said that radar images and visual observation also show that opposition groups did not withdraw from the road.
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“By today this morning nothing had happened on the Castello Road …”
