Paris and London put pressure on Russia over attacks in Syria

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Paris and London put pressure on Russia over attacks in Syria
By Seamus Kearney



"Russia needs to end its attacks on Syrian civilians and the moderate opposition"

PARIS: -- Despite a fragile ceasefire in force in Syria, amateur video footage uploaded to a social media website purports to show a Russian plane firing rockets over a town in the south of the country.

This as France and Britain on Thursday called on the Syrian government and its Russian ally to end attacks on Western-backed rebels.

After a joint UK-France summit, the British Prime Minister David Cameron said: “We welcome the latest truce, it could provide an opportunity to make progress at next week’s peace talks.

“But these will only succeed if there’s a change of behaviour by the Syrian regime and by its backers.

“That is why tomorrow, Francois (Hollande) and I, together with (German) Chancellor (Angela) Merkel, will speak with (Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin. Russia needs to end its attacks on Syrian civilians and the moderate opposition.”

Other footage that has come out of Syria showed a series of artillery shells exploding close to the border with Turkey, sending a group of visiting international reporters running for cover.

German journalist Christoph Wanner, from the channel N24, told Russian television: “It was terrible, really terrible. We were filming a ruined village in the mountains.

“All of a sudden a couple of shellings … perhaps from Al-Nusra or the Turks. I’m not sure.”

Russia reported more than 14 ceasefire violations in 24 hours, but the US insisted there had been no significant violations.

Syrian peace talks are due to resume on March the 9th in Geneva.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-04

[shirtless]

I think Russia does not give a damn about the west , or what our useless leaders think.

[colinneil]

Paris and london put pressure on russia is that meant to be a joke?

Putin must be quaking in his boots.

Russia is happy to be bombing in Syria because it is on the job training for its pilots.

[craigt3365]

I think Russia does not give a damn about the west , or what our useless leaders think.

Guaranteed Russia doesn't care or they wouldn't be carpet bombing innocent civilians and making one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in the history of the world!

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-syria-using-migrant-crisis-weapon-nato-commander-183654232.html

[retarius]

Best thing Putin could do is to end the ceasefire now. The Yanks ignore the shelling by Turkey and refuse to do anything at the UN to condemn it. The Yank sand Brits ignore the violations collected by Russian. I think Putin should move very fast and take a big swathe of Syria back and tell the Yanks where to stick it. I don't know how Kerry can even face Lavrov, he should be hiding his head in shame after all the lied he keeps telling.

[Thongkorn]

I think Russia does not give a damn about the west , or what our useless leaders think.

Guaranteed Russia doesn't care or they wouldn't be carpet bombing innocent civilians and making one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in the history of the world!

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-syria-using-migrant-crisis-weapon-nato-commander-183654232.html

Correct all Russia is doing is looking after its interests because it's on its knees with the price of oil bombing and sanctions are now bitting into its Econamy.

[Gene1960]

I think Russia does not give a damn about the west , or what our useless leaders think.

Guaranteed Russia doesn't care or they wouldn't be carpet bombing innocent civilians and making one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in the history of the world!

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-syria-using-migrant-crisis-weapon-nato-commander-183654232.html

Correct all Russia is doing is looking after its interests because it's on its knees with the price of oil bombing and sanctions are now bitting into its Econamy.

Most probably you're right and Russia is begging on its knees to stop the sanctions.

Although I see that the western leaders are just talking to Putin and that talking they call putting pressure on him. The public won't understand if they are told the truth. The sanctions made its impossible to apply any further pressure.

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[craigt3365]

Best thing Putin could do is to end the ceasefire now. The Yanks ignore the shelling by Turkey and refuse to do anything at the UN to condemn it. The Yank sand Brits ignore the violations collected by Russian. I think Putin should move very fast and take a big swathe of Syria back and tell the Yanks where to stick it. I don't know how Kerry can even face Lavrov, he should be hiding his head in shame after all the lied he keeps telling.

And the Russians don't lie? A bit one sided, methinks. But yes, it's a mess and Turkey isn't helping things. Nor is Russia, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Lebanon, etc, etc, etc.

[craigt3365]

I think Russia does not give a damn about the west , or what our useless leaders think.

Guaranteed Russia doesn't care or they wouldn't be carpet bombing innocent civilians and making one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in the history of the world!

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-syria-using-migrant-crisis-weapon-nato-commander-183654232.html

Correct all Russia is doing is looking after its interests because it's on its knees with the price of oil bombing and sanctions are now bitting into its Econamy.

It's Putin's fault he let the Russian economy become so dependent on oil. Boom and bust. But his economy isn't the only one having problems. Many countries around the world are suffering in the same way. Yet, they don't seem to be engaged in bombing innocent civilians in foreign countries. And the sanctions are due to the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Easy to solve that one and get rid of the sanctions. Leave. I'm sure the Ukrainians would apprecate that...and the lives of the average Russian would probably improve. All up to Putin.