“We hope to resume convoys tomorrow and Friday, but still work on security guarantees”.
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“In Geneva, Russia related that Assad was prepared to live by the cessation of hostilities and would accept the idea of not flying over agreed upon areas”, Kerry said.
The attack killed 20 civilians, according to the AP.
Rebel commander Abu al-Baraa al-Hamawi, said an attack by regime troops on the district of Hama was led by Russian jets pounding insurgent forces.
Syria’s five-year civil war has left more than 250,000 people dead and displaced more than 11 million others.
Only the Islamic State group and the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front are not covered by the ceasefire, but Russian Federation has long argued that other groups are fighting alongside those jihadists. Washington said that strike was carried out by mistake with the intent of hitting Islamic State.
Meanwhile, US officials have told the BBC that two Russian war planes were responsible for the attack.
Despite the military blame game over Monday’s deadly attack, diplomats struggled to save the US-Russian ceasefire agreement that took effect on September 12.
He took particular issue with Russia’s response to the bombing of an aid convey two days ago that killed 20 people in Aleppo, questioning why it has repeatedly changed its position.
US intelligence reportedly indicates that two Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplanes were in the skies at the time the convoy was struck.
The Syrian government has also denied that it carried out the attack.
A senior USA official says that Washington has determined with a very high degree of confidence that an attack on a humanitarian aid convoy in Syria on Monday was carried out by a Russian piloted aircraft. Defence Ministry spokesman Maj. On Wednesday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said that a USA predator drone was in the area at the time of the assault.
Trump, Gary Johnson tied among military voters Pentagon: “No US aircraft flying during Syrian convoy attack Kerry calls for grounding aircraft to salvage Syrian cease-fire MORE called Wednesday for all aircraft over humanitarian routes in Syria to be grounded in order to allow for much-needed aid to be delivered”.
The top American diplomat spoke just after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered his own set of barbs, underscoring the breakdown in trust in the 12 days since he and Kerry clinched a cease-fire agreement and a potential U.S.
Kerry claims Moscow has backtracked on taking responsibility for the attack and said simple logic indicates the Russians are lying.
Aid deliveries to besieged and hard-to-reach areas were a key part of the partial truce brokered by the USA and Russian Federation, which lasted just a week.
The organisation, known by its French initials UOSSM, had initially said that the Tuesday night strike levelled a medical triage point it operates in rebel-held territory outside Aleppo. The Observatory said government jets subjected the town to heavy bombardment Wednesday morning.
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State TV, quoting an unnamed military official, says the pilot has been rescued but doesn’t say what caused the plane to crash in the Qalamoun mountains, an area that straddles the border with Lebanon.
