Civilian deaths in East Ghoutag
Flames following a reported rocket attack is seen on the horizon in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta yesterday. Mr Abu Bashir said the shelling still struck civilians living in villages near the clashes.
Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council that Russia is doing everything it can to ensure the effectiveness of the daily five-hour humanitarian pauses, but blamed rebel forces for targeting the corridors designated for humanitarian operations with mortar shelling.
Speaking on Wednesday, the United States representative to the UN Kelley Currie condemned the Syrian government's continued aerial bombardment on Eastern Ghouta, a rural area outside of the capital Damascus that has been under opposition control since 2013.
He said that since February 18 over 580 people are reported to have been killed and well over 1,000 injured in air and ground strikes in the Damascus, home to about 400,000 people.
No humanitarian convoys had reached besieged areas, he said, no government permission had been received to cross military lines, no promised medical evacuations or civilian exits had taken place, and there had been no humanitarian improvement at all.
"The second day of this so-called truce or pause went away without any major developments on the ground", he said, speaking from the Turkish border city of Gaziantep.
"This is cynical, callous and in flagrant defiance of the demands of [Resolution] 2401", said USA envoy Kelley Currie.
The officer at Wafideen checkpoint warned that if today was equally fruitless, the measure may be dropped, raising fears the kind of bombardment that killed dozens of civilians every day this month would resume.
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"Russia does not get to unilaterally rewrite the terms of the resolution they negotiated and they sat here and voted for", she said.
An official with one of the most powerful groups, Jaish al-Islam, said that if the Al-Qaeda-linked fighters don't leave or abandon the fight, "all options" are open against them, including the use of force.
The U.N. envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura insisted that a government-led assault on eastern Ghouta must not devolve into a "copycat" of the bloody siege on Aleppo. "If Russia is able to deliver a five-hour pause, let it deliver a 24-hour one, as they agreed on Saturday".
"When will your resolution be implemented?" he asked. "For some reason, someone is always demanding something in an authoritative tone from the Russian Federation". Inside Eastern Ghouta, the residents AFP spoke to were distrustful of a measure put in place by Russian Federation, whose warplanes rained munitions on them alongside Syrian aircraft.
Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia reminded the council that the resolution adopted Saturday also demands that all parties "engage immediately to ensure full and comprehensive implementation" of the cease-fire - and "underscores the need for the parties to agree on humanitarian pauses ... and truces".
Several Security Council members welcomed this as a positive move.
Rusian President Vladimir Putin, while responding to a question posed by TASS news agency about situation in Eastern Ghouta, during joint press conference with Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebestian Kurz in Moscow on Wednesday said, "As is known - in any case, we in Russia know this well enough - some shells crash even on the territory of the Russian embassy and trade mission".
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