An airstrike in northern Syria killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said Wednesday, as the United Nations announced it would resume aid deliveries suspended after an attack on a convoy two days ago that killed 20 people.
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Mr Lavrov said the attack on the convoy was an “unacceptable provocation” that took place in territory controlled by forces opposing the Syrian government.
Three nurses and two ambulance drivers died of their injuries, UOSSM said.
The US believes two Russian Su-24 jets carried out the attack, based on location and timing.
Kerry blamed Russian Federation, lambasting what he portrayed as a cynical response to an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy this week that killed 20 civilians and raised “profound doubt” about Russia’s and Syria’s willingness to abide by the cease-fire.
After a high-level meeting on Syria during the UN General Assembly, U.K. Foreign Minister Boris Johnson told reporters Syrian and Russian military forces are the two possible actors responsible for the attack on the convoy.
The morning after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike a damaged truck carrying aid is seen on the side of the road in the town of Orum al-Kubra on outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, September 20, 2016.
In practice, however, the ceasefire was for 7 days, ending September 19, and even the two-day extension the United States and Russian Federation agreed to last week would’ve meant the ceasefire expired tonight anyhow.
A “clearly marked” United Nations convoy was due to deliver aid on Thursday to besieged areas near the Syrian capital after a 48-hour suspension to review security guarantees following an attack on relief trucks near Aleppo, a United Nations spokesman said.
Germany’s foreign minister is calling for a temporary ban on all military aircraft flying over Syria to try and preserve the current ceasefire. Yet following the convoy attack, the United Nations suspended overland aid operations in Syria.
The US Central Command said the attack was “halted immediately” when Russian Federation warned it could be hitting Syrian troops.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called on Russian Federation and Syria to cease flying over Aleppo, just days after a convoy carrying human-aid supplies to civilians in the besieged city was attacked by warplanes.
PARIS: An air strike on a clinic near Aleppo has killed four employees of an global medical aid agency, the French group says on Wednesday.
Key players in the civil war will resume diplomatic efforts in NY later to save the troubled ceasefire deal and plot a path towards ending the civil war.
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But the ceasefire’s collapse has stalled aid deliveries. Syrians living in opposition areas will be disproportionately affected because the UN’s major warehouses are located in government-held areas.
