White House spokesman, Ben Rhodes said it is an enormous humanitarian tragedy and Russian Government is responsible for the airstrikes.
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The Syrian and Russian militaries both denied on Tuesday they were involved in the attack.
Four doctors with the have been killed in air strikes on a medical facility in southern Aleppo, as Syria reels from a series of attacks on humanitarian targets following the end of a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. and Russian Federation which lasted just four days.
Deputy National Security Adviser Rhodes said that while America’s preference is to continue with the ceasefire effort, which paves the way for more cooperation between the Russian and United States militaries operating in Syria, Moscow’s actions going forward could prevent further coordination.
The decision follows an attack against a convoy of United Nations lorries at 19.00 local time on Monday; 18 of 31 lorries were destroyed, killing at least 20 civilians, including a high ranking Red Crescent official.
Further fueling tensions, a US-led coalition air strike Saturday apparently killed at least 62 Syrian soldiers in eastern Syria, near the Islamic State group-controlled town of Deir Ezzor.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Syrian or Russian warplanes carried out the raid and that it also killed nine rebel fighters from the Islamist alliance Jaish al-Fatah.
“Those attacks on people sacrificing their lives to help people have to stop”.
Speaking on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria, Lavrov said that the Russian Federation and US-backed plan included the creation of a demilitarized zone around the Castello Road near Aleppo. The bombs also destroyed a hospital, Mr. Carpentier said.
Russian Federation has denied responsibility for the airstrike, which killed an aid worker and destroyed a convoy delivering relief supplies to besieged western Aleppo.
The convoy was part of a routine dispatch operated by the Syrian Red Crescent.
The Russians are denying this, of course, but perhaps the even more unusual angle is that White House officials have subsequently come forward to insist that the USA holds Russia responsible for what happened to the convoy, even if they didn’t actually do it. -Russian cease-fire agreement that took effect on September 12.
Russian war planes in Syria did not conduct any strikes on the United Nations humanitarian convoy in Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj.
The UN has responded by saying they will be suspending all overland aid deliveries in Syria, placing the food and medical supply for millions of besieged civilians at risk. These are war crimes by all means, ” Zoabi said.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed Tuesday that a drone had followed the convoy from a warehouse in the government-side of Aleppo to its destination in Uram al-Kubra.
