Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government will ground its planes and helicopters.
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Moscow said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from Castello Road on Friday but was forced to return after its forces “came under attack by rebels using small arms fire”, said Stratford, quoting Russian officials.
An estimated 250,000 people still live in east Aleppo.
Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says that Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy for Syria, could call the talks between the Syrian government and the opposition later this month or in October.
Speaking in Geneva, de Mistura blamed Assad’s government for the delay.
Special envoy Staffan de Mistura placed responsibility on the Syrian government which, he said, had not yet provided the “facilitation letters” that would allow aid convoys to pass through army checkpoints and reach besieged areas.
But Washington has warned Russian Federation that unless aid is delivered to Aleppo, it will not move ahead with the formation of the joint coordination centre.
“It is particularly regrettable”.
If they apply their influence and it has no effect, “then the arrangement doesn’t come into being and we’re back to, regrettably, where we have so always been, which is innocent civilians being barrel bombed and gassed”, he said.
Churkin said the resolution would provide “endorsement of the agreement” reached last week that allowed a ceasefire to go into effect on Monday, paving the way to aid deliveries and a possible resumption of peace talks.
“The permits have not been given”, Jan Egeland, chairman of the Syrian humanitarian task force, said Thursday.
“Can well-fed, grown men please stop putting political bureaucratic and procedural road blocks for courageous humanitarian workers that are willing and able to go to serve women, children, wounded civilians in besieged and cross-fire areas?”
The truce has been holding despite some violations, with the Syrian opposition on Thursday reporting 46 cease-fire violations around the country.
The cease-fire was supposed to pave the way for aid shipments into besieged rebel-held areas of Aleppo, but convoys have yet to enter.
On Thursday evening, the Russian military announced that Syrian forces had begun to withdraw from Castello Road.
While the Russian defence ministry said the attack killed 60 troops, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 80 soldiers died.
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.
In the Syrian capital, Damascus, rare clashes erupted between government forces and an insurgent group, marking some of the most serious clashes in the area in weeks.
The state-run Anadolu news agency says three US flags were hung on Thursday around a compound of the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, and were still visible from Turkey on Friday afternoon.
Russian ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin said there was no point in briefing the council if the US did not want to say exactly what was in the deal.
Aleppo has been the center of fighting in recent months and Syrian government forces and their allies launched a wide offensive earlier this month, capturing several areas south of the city and putting eastern rebel-held neighborhoods under siege for the second time in two months. SANA said the shelling violates the cease-fire, which went into effect Monday.
“The challenge we continue to face – and this is the very sad reality – is ensuring all parties to the conflict, and those with influence over them, are in agreement”, he told AFP.
“No aid has arrived in Aleppo”.
“There were three raids on two army positions held by the Syrian army on Jabal Therdeh”, the source said.
That casualty toll is according to Deir el-Zour 24, an activist collective. The Observatory said the airstrike killed 23 people.
The Syrian military says an airstrike by the US-led coalition hit a regime military position Saturday.
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Russia, an ally of Syria’s president, says government forces are now moving back from a key road into Aleppo.
