"And now, apparently, unable to comply with these agreements that they themselves worked out, they are trying to pass on responsibility to someone else."
Earlier on Monday, the US State Department announced that Washington would suspend participation in "bilateral channels with Russia that were established to sustain the Cessation of Hostilities," according to spokesperson John Kirby.
Earlier on Monday, Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, also criticized the US decision.
"Russia has striven for continuing dialogue with the US on Syria until the last moment, and only our position was keeping the chance to launch a stable peace process alive," he said, adding that Washington`s uncompromising stance is based "to a great extent on subjective factors linked with the current presidential election cycle."
On September 9, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a new peace plan to address the conflict in Syria. The ceasefire deal was later shattered by numerous violations, which resulted in intensified fighting between the Syrian government and militants in Aleppo. The Syrian government later announced an end to the ceasefire regime.
US failed in its Syria commitments, tries to shift blame on Russia - Moscow
04 October 2016
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"It turns out that Washington simply did not fulfill a key condition of the arrangements to facilitate the humanitarian situation of the inhabitants of Aleppo," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told Russia`s First Channel.
