Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Jamjoom, reporting from Moscow, said Russia’s Defence Ministry noted on Saturday if there was a collapse of the ceasefire, it would be the fault of the United States.
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The UN says it is still waiting to be able to deliver aid to besieged Aleppo.
Pre-election polling by the independent Levada Center indicated that only the four parties now in parliament – United Russia, the Communists, the nationalist Liberal Democrats and A Just Russia – would get enough nationwide votes to be allotted seats.
Most Russians were to vote later on Sunday, but in a country spanning 11 time zones at least some already cast ballots in an election dominated by President Vladimir Putin’s supporters.
He appeared to be referring to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, which is deeply embedded in rebel-held areas and fights alongside more moderate groups.
In New York, the UN Security Council cancelled an urgent meeting that had been called to discuss whether to endorse the ceasefire, billed as the “last chance” to end the five-year war that has killed 300,000 people.
The Syrian government says insurgents have been firing on routes leading into the northern city of Aleppo, endangering United Nations efforts to deliver aid to besieged, rebel-held neighborhoods.
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday that USA jets had killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers in four air strikes by two F-16s and two A-10s coming from the direction of Iraq.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the US commitment to cease-fire, suggesting that Washington wasn’t prepared to break with “terrorist elements” battling Assad’s forces.
“The actions of coalition pilots – if they, as we hope, were not taken on an order from Washington – are on the boundary between criminal negligence and connivance with Islamic State terrorists”, the ministry said.
Two convoys of aid for Aleppo have been waiting at the Turkish border for days.
The Syrian General command, however, charged that the purported USA -led strike in the al-Tharda Mountains around the Deir El-Zour airport in eastern Syria “paved the way for Islamic State terrorists to attack the position and take control of it”. The government said the road was being fired on by rebels, which they deny, so it could not give convoys a guarantee of safety.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Saturday intermittent shelling and clashes resumed overnight on several fronts in Syria.
The Syrian military has claimed the US-led coalition struck its base in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, allowing the Islamic State group (IS) to advance in the fiercely contested area.
It is hoped that the truce forged between the United States and Russian Federation will clear the way for negotiations about a political transition in Syria.
He said IS militants surrounding the air base launched an attack on the Syrian army positions after the air strike.
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Officials in Washington and Moscow on Friday expressed a desire to extend the cease-fire pact and confirmed aid deliveries had not yet begun, but agreed on little else concerning the tenuous situation in the war-torn country.
