Syrian state media quoted army officials as urging civilians in eastern parts of the city to avoid areas where “terrorists” were operating.
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Moscow and Washington announced the ceasefire on September 9.
The Syrian army announced on Monday the end of the week-long ceasefire, without extending it, as part of the Syrian government dismay with the US -led attack against Syrian military positions in Deir al-Zour earlier this week, which killed 90 Syrian soldiers, and the violations the rebels were said to have committed during the truce time.
The US has been railing at Russian Federation since the ceasefire collapsed, but were complaining almost as loudly even while the ceasefire was in effect and holding, and appeared angriest when Russian Federation criticized the US airstrikes in Deir Ezzor.
Talks in NY between Russian Federation and the U.S., which supports opposition rebel forces, failed to result in a newly-brokered ceasefire.
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said Washington could not be the only one trying to hold open the door to peace.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would keep working to reestablish the truce, but both sides would have to make the necessary efforts, he added.
Kerry called for Russian Federation and President Bashar al-Assad to halt flights over Syrian battle zones, a call which was echoed by several other nations. The US wants Russian Federation to press the Syrian government to ground its warplanes.
Egeland called the attack on the aid convoy in Big Urem outside of Aleppo this Monday “the worst attack ever sustained on a United Nations cross-line, cross-border convoy”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group of opposition activists, said 14 air strikes had hit Bustan al-Qasr and the neighbouring Kallasa district, starting “massive fires”, as rebels and troops clashed.
“I am no less determined today than I was yesterday but I am even more frustrated”, Kerry told reporters after the session.
UN Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura described the NY meeting as “long, painful and disappointing”, but added that he was still hopeful the two countries would pay serious attention to brokering peace in the region.
Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with the government controlling the west and rebels the east.
The UN resumed aid deliveries on Thursday after a pause in the wake of a strike on the convoy in Syria’s north that killed 20 civilians and destroyed 18 aid trucks.
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Assad has appeared as uncompromising as ever in recent weeks, reiterating his goal of taking back the whole country.
