She added that many reports from Aleppo that night said there was “heavy bombardment by Syrian warplanes and their Russian allies”.
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At least seven civilians were killed during overnight airstrikes, a monitoring group said on Friday. He said that he was willing to talk to the Russians again today.
“I haven’t eaten yet, given that there is nothing to eat here”, said Khalil Hajjar, an Aleppo-based activist. Russia, then, likely sees little reason to give in to USA demands since it isn’t going to placate them anyhow.
Russian Federation and the United States also failed to reach an agreement on the Syria crisis at a high-level meeting in NY on September 22.
A Russian military spokesman said a USA -led coalition Predator drone was in the area at the time. “There is no weapon they didn’t use”, he told Reuters from Turkey.
Sep 23, 2016- The Syrian military has announced a new offensive in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people are living under siege.
The army called on residents of the districts to keep away from “sites and centers of armed terrorist groups”, according to Syria’s official state news agency.
Yasser Ibrahim al-Youssef, a political representative for Nour al-Dine al-Zinki, one of the rebel groups fighting in Aleppo, said Friday the war had returned in force.
An official who requested anonymity commented that the truce has always depended on Russian Federation but the U.S. doubts whether Moscow and Damascus are willing to take the kind of steps Washington demands from them.
Secretary of State John Kerry, reacting to the attack on the aid convoy, called Wednesday for the immediate grounding of all military aircraft in areas where aid is delivered, but without any immediate result. “The Syrians themselves have no clue what this fate is”.
The military, which is backed by the Russian air force, said late on Thursday that it was starting a new operation against the rebel-held east, which is home to at least 250,000 people and has been battered by bombing raids for months.
The distance from the Turkish border to east Aleppo is only some 40 miles, but the journey could take about four to five hours. But the agreement, probably the final bid for a breakthrough on Syria before President Barack Obama leaves office next year, appears to have suffered the same fate as all other doomed peace efforts in a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians and made half the nation homeless.
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But following the pause a convoy on Thursday entered Muadhamiya, a suburb of the capital, Damascus, where some 40,000 people are living under siege, the United Nations tweeted.
