Russian Federation seeks to lower expectations before new Syria talks

Instead, the envoys said only that new ideas were proposed and more discussions planned. In the last six years, more than 3,00,000 people have died in the civil war in the country.

However, the USA president is believed to be reluctant to order airstrikes on Syrian government targets.

Speaking to Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Assad said: “What we’ve been seeing during the last few weeks, and maybe few months, is something like more than Cold War”.

Assad also said that the actions of Turkey, which is backing Syrian rebels involved in an operation aimed at clearing Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) from its Syria border region, constituted an “invasion” and said that they violated “international law”.

No official news conference or joint statement followed the meeting. “The tunnel has been blown up, over 15 militants who were underground at that time were killed”, the militia said. Last week he accused Russian Federation of war crimes for targeting hospitals and civilian infrastructure in the Arab country. The Lausanne meeting, initiated by Kerry, is the first attempt to try to find a new viable strategy to stem the violence which continues to mount in Aleppo and elsewhere. But it is no longer in the context of trying to broker this agreement that would. hold out the prospect of US military cooperation with Russian Federation. “We spoke clearly in favor of a quick launch of a political process”.

The Syrian air force – along with Russian warplanes – have been hitting the city with regular airstrikes.

This comes as Syrian opposition activists are reporting intense airstrikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo amid clashes between government forces and rebels.

Last week, Russia warned that USA strikes on Syrian military targets could put Russian forces commingled with them at risk and that it would take necessary measures to protect its troops. Russian Federation has said it wants a cease-fire, but can not do so while extremists continue to embed themselves with other rebel groups to take advantage of lulls in the fighting.

“If Civilian deaths in Syria were caused by his country’s bombing it would be a heavy burden on Russia’s psyche and soul”, Mr. Churkin said, as reported by BBC.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky implored Americans to vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in order to de-escalate the now risky tensions between the us and Russian Federation.

One of the options they are set to discuss is providing allies with more sophisticated weapons, except shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles which it’s feared could be used against Western airlines.

The EU and Russian Federation also back opposite sides in the conflict in Ukraine.

“The Russians are seeking to maximise their advantage before (President Barack) Obama’s successor – probably (Hillary) Clinton – steps in with a likely firmer approach to Syria”, said Karim Bitar, a researcher at the Institute for global and Strategic Affairs think tank in Paris. Washington and Moscow had worked closely in recent months and reached a deal in mid-September that was billed as the “best chance” to end Syria’s bloodshed.

“The Russians have been engaged in a sustained campaign to recapture what Putin considers their rightful buffer in Eastern Europe, and to undermine not just North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the EU, but the entire democratic foundation of both institutions”, said a us official who has studied Russian behavior since before the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991.