The assessment laid more deliberate blame on Moscow for the strike on the Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy, which killed 20 civilians.
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Ryabkov said the deal was the best possible option amid sharp disagreements over Syria, adding that Russian and US diplomats need to “calmly sit down and think what needs to be done to keep the agreement afloat”.
A US and Russian-brokered cease-fire that went into effect nine days ago is on the brink of collapse, with the government and the rebels alleging dozens of violations.
An ceasefire reached between Russian Federation, which supports the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, and the United States literally went up in flames this week with an accidental air strike against Syrian troops, killing 60, on Saturday and then the bombing of an UN aid convoy two days ago, killing 20.
The tirade by Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Bashar al-Ja’afari, came during an intense United Nations Security Council meeting in NY on Wednesday.
Jens Laerke, the spokesman for OCHA said that “several” convoys were expected as early as Thursday, but did not specify where.
The UN Security Council will hold a high-level meeting on Syria today, and the distrust between the U.S. and Russian Federation is likely to be high on the agenda. “We hope to resume convoys tomorrow and Friday, but still work on security guarantees”.
The Russian also cited a series of truce violations by USA -backed rebel groups near the northern city of Aleppo. As the medics deployed, planes circled around and struck the area again, Dr. Oubaida Al Moufti, vice-president of the International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, said. Russian Federation said the strikes killed more than 60 Syrian troops, and afterward, IS militants briefly overran government positions in the area until they were beaten back.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said they were “the most intense strikes in months” on those two districts and that they had killed seven people, including three women and three children.
There were no reports on who was behind the strike.
Kremlin government rejected such claims suggesting that US -backed aid workers could have destroyed their own convoy. The convoy was carrying United Nations aid.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry didn’t pull his punches against the Russian government at the United Nations on Wednesday – blasting Moscow for this week’s attack on a convoy carrying relief supplies into war-battered Syria.
Russia and the United States discussed the Syrian conflict in NY, hours after clashing over the issue at the United Nations, the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, reasserted that Russia wasn’t responsible for the strike – and indirectly suggested that a pilotless coalition aircraft may have been involved in the incident.
The top American diplomat spoke just after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered his own set of barbs, underscoring the breakdown in trust in the 12 days since he and Kerry clinched a cease-fire agreement and a potential U.S. US Secretary of State John Kerry took particular aim at the Kremlin over its inability to stick to a September 9 ceasefire. The Syrian military declared Monday night the truce had expired, shortly before presumed Russian or Syrian government jets launched a sustained aerial attack on Aleppo’s opposition-held neighborhoods.
The cease-fire was intended in part to allow humanitarian convoys to reach besieged and hard-to-reach areas throughout Syria. The Syrian capital, seat of Assad’s power, has stayed relatively untouched throughout the conflict, spared the devastation inflicted on other, opposition-held areas of the country.
Meanwhile an aid convoy carrying aid traveling near Aleppo was destroyed, killing 21 people, with the USA quick to blame Russian Federation for the incident. She was referring to the rebel-besieged towns of Foua and Kefraya in Idlib and government-blockaded Madaya and Zabadani near the Lebanese border.
On Wednesday, heavy bombardment pummelled Aleppo city and the wider province, key battlegrounds in Syria’s conflict.
A Syrian monitoring group says a warplane has crashed northwest of the capital, Damascus, as Islamic State group militants claim they downed it.
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The IS-affiliated news agency Aamaq said the group downed the plane in the eastern Qalamoun mountains after the aircraft carried out four raids.
