'..UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged an end to the offensive in Aleppo, saying the bombs "are not busting bunkers, they are demolishing ordinary people looking for any last refuge of safety."
"International law is clear, he said, the systematic use of indiscriminate weapons in densely populated areas is a war crime." '<blockquote>'Britain, France, and the United States have lashed out at Russia for its actions in Syria, amid an intensification of the bombing campaign over the northern city of Aleppo.
"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counterterrorism, it is barbarism," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on September 25.
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The British envoy, Matthew Rycroft, said Russia's actions have “prolonged the conflict, prolonged the suffering."
"It is difficult to deny that Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes," Rycroft added.
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On the sidelines of the meeting, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged an end to the offensive in Aleppo, saying the bombs "are not busting bunkers, they are demolishing ordinary people looking for any last refuge of safety."
"International law is clear, he said, the systematic use of indiscriminate weapons in densely populated areas is a war crime." '
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Russia Under Fire At UN After Deadly Aleppo Bombings, September 26, 2016</blockquote>
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'..Russia is “leaning towards the view that this war is winnable.” ''..that patience with Moscow was "not unlimited." ''..the Russian parliamentary elections, which breach the international law, call into question the legitimacy of the elected State Duma..'</blockquote>