The US-led coalition also admitted this week that its airstrikes over the weekend had killed 62 Syrian regime troops in eastern Syria. The councils nations all sought to revive the U.S.
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Syria’s five-year civil war has left more than 250,000 people dead and displaced more than 11 million others.
Supposedly we all want the same goal.
“How can people go sit at a table with a regime that bombs hospitals and drops chlorine gas again and again and again and again and again and acts with impunity”, Kerry asked.
“There are only two countries that have airplanes that are flying during the night, or flying at all in that particular area: Russian Federation and Syria”, he said.
“But because of what’s happened in the past few days my friends we have no choice but to do that sooner rather than later, move immediately to restore confidence and implement a genuine ceasefire now”.
The Syrian regime declared the cease-fire over on Monday, though the United States said it was prepared to continue working on it with Russian Federation.
Moscow reacted furiously to “unsubstantiated” accusations from the United States that Syrian or Russian planes were responsible for bombing an aid convoy in Syria’s Aleppo.
His comments follow Mr Kerry’s declaration that Russian Federation should stand up and take responsibility for air strikes, criticizing Russia’s defense ministry for changing its story.
First, Kerry said, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary described the attack as a “necessary response” to an alleged offensive by al-Qaida-linked militants elsewhere in the country.
He said independent witnesses reported seeing fighter jets above the convoy and only Russian Federation and Syria had aircraft in the area.
It leaves the US military sitting and waiting on word from the State Department and the United Nations that the cease-fire has either officially been terminated or that the Syrian and Russian militaries have taken the appropriate steps to move forward with the deal initially struck.
It was one of Kerrys most bitter exchanges with Moscow as secretary of state, laced with invective and outrage. The United Nations responded by suspending its aid operations in Syria.
Mr Johnson told the BBC that “this is not a civil war going on in Syria, this is a proxy war” as he was asked whether the suggestion that Russian Federation may have committed a war crime made the prospect of reviving a ceasefire more hard.
Nine rebel fighters were also killed during the bombardment, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The scale of the atrocities committed by the Syrian government, he said, meant we cant just do business as usual.
Lavrov said the US bore the biggest responsibility for peace by separating opposition forces from terrorists.
He called for an independent investigation.
Lavrov was more direct in laying out what he presented as a series off truce violations by US -backed rebels groups near the northern city of Aleppo.
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“Syria will not become another Libya or Iraq”, he said.
