The attack on the convoy is likely to provoke anger at the UN General Assembly in NY, with the delivery of aid to desperate Syrian civilians in rebel-held areas stressed as a key condition of the deal by Washington.
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The attack on more than a dozen lorries and a warehouse near the town of Urum al-Kubra, killed 12 people, including at least one Red Crescent staff member, according to United Kingdom -based monitoring group The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
According to initial reports, 12 people had died.
“While we have seen comments attributed to the Syrian military, our arrangement is with Russian Federation, which is responsible for the Syrian regime’s compliance, so we expect Russian Federation to clarify their position”, he said.
A witness told the Reuters news agency by phone that about five missile strikes had hit the lorries, which were parked at a centre belonging to the Syrian Red Crescent.
The United Nations peace envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said the ceasefire was in effect until its co-sponsors Moscow and Washington declared it over, and neither had done so at Tuesday’s meeting.
A Syrian activist group said 92 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the cease-fire.
‘Martyrs and wounded among civilians were reported, some of them are still stuck under the rubble, in Aleppo city and its suburbs, due to bombardment and artillery shelling’.
A Syrian human rights group said Monday that at least 32 people had been killed and dozens injured in Aleppo, Syria, and its western suburbs in the hours after Syria’s military declared the U.S.
The Defense Ministry also confirmed a report that an Islamic State offensive began right after Syrian Army positions were hit from the air.
It is understood Britain’s participation involved an unmanned RAF Reaper drone.
“The Russians made the agreement”. “Given the egregious violation of the Cessation of Hostilities we will reassess the future prospects for cooperation with Russian Federation”.
The cease-fire deal is now threatened with a recent escalation between Moscow and Washington, after the US -led coaliton airstrikes killed 90 Syrian servicemen in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Saturday.
“The important thing is the Russians need to control Assad, who evidently is indiscriminately bombing, including of humanitarian convoys”, Kerry said.
The Syrian military and rebels had already accused each other of violations.
World Food Programme spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said in a statement that the United Nations food agency had airdropped aid to besieged neighbourhoods in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour earlier Tuesday “as part of the planned schedule of deliveries”.
Elsewhere at least 20 civilians, including a 1-year-old girl, were killed in fresh airstrikes on rebel-held parts of Aleppo city and surrounding areas, according to the Observatory.
The most criticized abuse reported by the opposition is that the government failed to open roads for aid for the troops fighting against Assad’s regime. That was to be set up after seven days of reduced violence and sustained aid deliveries to Aleppo and other areas.
The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group in Syria, said Russia’s air forces and government warplanes dropped 25 bombs damaging some 20 trucks and destroying the Red Crescent warehouse in Uram al-Kubra.
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His adviser Buthaina Shaaban went further, telling AFP that Damascus believed the raid which killed at least 62 Syrian soldiers had been intentional.
