On Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov blamed each other at the United Nations for violating the agreement.
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An angry US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded at a UN Security Council meeting that Russian Federation force Syria to ground its air force, which Washington blames for an attack on an aid convoy.
“The preparation for these convoys has now resumed and we are ready to deliver aid to besieged and hard to reach areas as soon as possible”, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.
The Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organisations (UOSSM) said the strike hit two of its ambulances in Khan Tuman, a village south of Aleppo city, as workers evacuated victims from a previous strike.
The Britain-based Observatory said dozens of raids hit the city’s east overnight, as regime troops advanced on rebels in Aleppo’s southwestern outskirts.
Key players in the civil war will resume diplomatic efforts in NY later to save the troubled ceasefire deal and plot a path towards ending the five-year civil war.
He also said an airstrike on an aid convoy in Aleppo raised “profound doubt” as to whether Russian Federation and the Syrian government were committed to upholding the cessation of hostilities.
“And if that happens, there is a chance of giving credibility back to this process”.
The news of the airstrike comes just as the United Nations announced Wednesday that it would resume delivery of aid to the war-torn country as early as Thursday.
Russian Federation on Wednesday said a Predator drone from the US-led coalition was in the air over the aid convoy was destroyed.
The United States and Russian Federation are to chair a meeting in NY later on Thursday of the 23-nation International Syria Support Group (ISSG), which brings together world powers with a stake in the civil war.
Sounding a cautious note about the NY talks, Mr Kerry told reporters on Wednesday that “it’s going to be hard”.
Gabriel said he told Putin that Germany thought the Syrian army was involved in the attack.
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The United States holds Russia responsible for the attack on the aid convoy, with a U.S. official saying two Russian SU-24 ground attack jets were operating in the area where it was struck.
