Meanwhile, a humanitarian aid convoy consisting of 40 trucks stocked with supplies for the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo is waiting at a special customs checkpoint at the Turkish border.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad has slammed the attack on the troops as “flagrant aggression” on the part of the US-led coalition, which has displayed “increasing support for terrorists” with this latest action.
Badawi says the rescue effort was hampered by the dark and 11 strikes that came while the rescue team was searching for survivors.
Russian Federation and Syria said the strikes prove Washington and its allies are sympathetic to ISIS, which they say was able to briefly capture a Syrian position in the wake of the coalition attack.
The State Department also blamed Moscow and the Syrian regime for hampering the delivery of aid.
Rudskoy said that the week-long truce had been violated 302 times and that 63 civilians had been killed. He stressed that all parties received notification of the convoy, which was carrying aid for about 78,000 people.
Earlier, the Russian military denied it was behind the strikes. The Syrian military could not immediately be reached for comment on the attack.
Violence increased across the country on Monday, with fierce clashes reported east of Damascus and one child killed in regime shelling on the edges of Aleppo.
A local resident told Reuters by phone that the trucks were hit by about five missile strikes while parked in a center belonging to the Syrian Red Crescent in Urm al-Kubra, a town near Aleppo. Later in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the attacks, saying they killed 62 servicemen and injured 100 more.
Kerry, who was meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, reacted testily to the declaration, but implied there was time to save the deal.
Aid was delivered to the besieged town of Talbiseh in Homs province later on Monday, the Red Cross said, for the first time since July.
A helicopter attack on the southern village of Dael killed at least eight people, activists said.
Ibrahim Alhaj told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Syrian civilians will pay the price for the decision.
Damascus’ major ally Moscow insists that Syrian forces have fully respected the truce – which is meant to end hostilities and ensure aid deliveries – but that rebels have kept up bombardments.
Although Kerry professed hope, US officials said Monday conditions were still not right to set up the Joint Implementation Center.
Meanwhile the United Nations said the Syrian government has obstructed the delivery of aid to besieged areas like Aleppo, a key component of the deal.
The convoys were still waiting at the Turkey-Syria border as of Monday morning, Reuters reported, citing United Nations spokesman Jens Laerke.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said it was too early to call the ceasefire finished and the United Nations said only Washington and Moscow could declare it over, as they were the ones who originally agreed it.
He said it’s “a very, very dark day. for humanitarians across the world”.
The Syrian military said in a statement Monday that “armed terrorist groups” repeatedly violated the cease-fire and took advantage of the truce to mobilize and arm themselves while attacking government-held areas. -Russian brokered cease-fire had failed.
The Syrian ceasefire is holding but fragile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday amid reports that fighting had picked up after a week of reduced violence and humanitarian aid was still not getting to besieged areas in Aleppo. Bashar Jaafari also accused the USA of providing help to the Islamic State group.
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“We can confirm that the United Kingdom participated in the coalition air strike south of Deir el-Zour on Saturday, and we are fully co-operating with the coalition investigation”, the MoD spokesman said.
