The UN halted its aid deliveries following the strike and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it a “sickening, savage, and apparently deliberate attack”.
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Last week, Moscow and Washington brokered a cease-fire in Syria, which is now teetering on the brink amid renewed fighting and an attack on a humanitarian convoy.
Spokesperson Igor Konashenkov told Russian state run channel Rossiya 24 that “all information on the whereabouts of the convoy was available only to the militants controlling these areas”. The countries were to coordinate airstrikes on Islamist militants in Syria, but the warring sides have since accused each other of numerous violations.
Syrian civilians are seen in the aftermath of renewed attacks on an opposition-controlled area in Aleppo on Tuesday. UN Security Council will meet on Wednesday to discuss Syria, and Kerry and Lavrov will meet again on Friday.
The U.S. and Russia support different parties to the war in Syria – Russia backs the government of President Bashar Assad, while the U.S.is allied with opposition groups.
It’s unclear who is responsible for the airstrike.
“What is more the aircraft entered the area over the town of Orum al-Kubra, where the convoy was located, several minutes before it burst into flames and left 30 minutes later”, he said.
Monday night’s attack in Aleppo province on a Red Crescent warehouse where United Nations aid was delivered killed 20 people and destroyed most of the goods. Aircraft from Syria, Russia and the USA -led coalition are targeting the Fatah al-Sham Front, which along with the Islamic State group was excluded from the cease-fire.
20 civilians were killed in the bombing including a senior official of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
The command center follows all aircraft flying over Syria, and when “60 Minutes” visited the facility past year, the yellow tracks of Russian aircraft were clearly visible on the wall.
Four medics were killed and a nurse was critically wounded when an air strike hit a clinic in a village near Syria’s second city Aleppo, the aid group that runs it said.
APPHOTO NYKH103: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, sits with United Nations envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura during the International Syria Support Group meeting Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in NY.
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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.
