Kerry: Aleppo fighting makes Syria deal unlikely

During an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Sunday, Samantha Power, the USA ambassador to the UN, accused Moscow of “barbarism” and war crimes for bombing Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.

The US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samantha Power, said that Russian Federation had told outright lies about its conduct in the conflict.

The United Kingdom’s foreign minister Boris Johnson has provoked a furious response from Russian Federation after he said Moscow’s forces may be guilty of war crimes in Syria.

A short-lived ceasefire negotiated by Russian Federation and the USA came to a fiery end with the bombing of a United Nations aid convoy in rural Aleppo last Monday. The Russian envoy conceded that the surge in violence over the past days meant that “bringing peace is nearly an impossible task now”.

Britain’s ambassador accused Damascus of a “sick blood-lust against its people”, and also held Moscow responsible for the plight of civilians.

On Sunday, Matthew Rycroft, British ambassador to the UN, staged a walk out at an emergency session of the UN Security Council along with his French and United States counterparts to protest against the Syrian regime’s latest offensive in Aleppo. The United States, Britain and France all blamed Russian Federation, which backs President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

Dozens of air strikes overnight killed 12 people, including three children, the UK-based monitoring group reported on Monday.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the situation in Aleppo, according to the Associated Press. The UK’s envoy accused Moscow of committing war crimes. Ms Power and her United Kingdom and French counterparts later walked out of the session when the Syrian representative addressed the council.

At least 124 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo since the army on Thursday announced an operation to take the country’s second city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“We have become a weapons testing site and the whole world is watching in silence”.

Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura echoed Ban’s comments, calling the recent days “chilling”.

Kerry appeared to be “pinned down by stark criticism from the American military apparatus”, Lavrov noted, which may indicate that the U.S. military does not comply with its commander-in-chief’s orders. But he noted mutual trust to solve the five-year crisis was “seriously broken”.

“The sudden rise in wounded now means supplies are dangerously low or not available at all”, said Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Gaziantep along the Turkey-Syria border. “I don’t think. this is the time to say where we will go from here”, one answered.

The Syrian government meanwhile pressed its efforts to pacify rebellious areas on its own terms under local agreements with besieged fighters.

Hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties and medical workers expecting numerous wounded to die from a lack of treatment, according to Mohammad Zein Khandaqani, a member of the Medical Council, which oversees medical affairs in the city’s opposition quarters.