Putin: Washington keeping cease-fire details secret

His remarks were a clear allusion to Trump, the outspoken Republican nominee, who has emphatically professed his readiness to work with Putin, and at one point even said the Russian strongman was much more of a leader than US President Barack Obama.

But the Syrian ceasefire looks increasingly shaky as “limited shelling and clashes have resumed on several fronts in Syria”, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. It says two men were killed outside Damascus and a child was killed in Aleppo province.

The Syrian government said it has done all that is necessary to facilitate the entry of aid convoys to Aleppo, but that armed groups have failed to withdraw from the supply routes and are committing “dangerous, provocative acts”. A video of the rescue mission shows bodies strewn across the ground.

The cease-fire took effect on Monday, and despite reports of violations, it has largely held.

On September 9, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a new plan on Syria, which stipulates a ceasefire that came into force on Monday. “We see no separation of terrorists and healthy forces, but rather attempts by terrorists to regroup”, he said.

Israel says its Iron Dome rocket defense system has intercepted a projectile fired from inside Syria into the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights.

Both sides have accused the other of being responsible for aid deliveries being stuck far from Aleppo, where army and rebel forces were supposed to retire from the Castello Road which leads into besieged, insurgent-held eastern districts.

Russia’s military said Syrian rebels violated the cease-fire dozens of times over the past day, including with strikes on military and civilian targets in Aleppo.

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted by the state news agency TASS as saying that “after today’s attack on the Syrian army, we come to the bad conclusion that the White House is defending the Islamic State”. Russian news agencies cited another official, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko, as saying there had been 55 violations throughout the country. Vladimir Savchenko, as saying there had been 55 violations throughout the country.

“The truce, as we have warned, and we told the (U.S.) State Department – will not hold out”, the rebel official said, pointing to the continued presence of a United Nations aid convoy at the Turkish border awaiting permission to travel to Aleppo.

Terrorists groups, which Russia expected to be separated from “moderate rebels” with US help, and be subject to joint US-Russian attacks, are instead using the ongoing ceasefire to regroup, the Russian president said.

“I don’t really understand why we have to hide any agreements, but we will of course refrain from revealing any details until our American partners agree to this”, he said.

He suggested Washington’s resistance stems from a hope to retain the combat potential of forces fighting the Syrian government.