Russia says Syria ceasefire process underway despite U.S. sabotage attempts. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said "some U.S. officials" had tried to "sabotage" the ceasefire plan "by interpreting it from such cardinally different points."
Maria said U.S. officials attempted to call into question the agreements reached, which were approved by the two presidents, "It actually looked like sabotage." Officials in Moscow became unnerved by a statement by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry saying that Washington was also considering an unspecified "Plan B".
Zakharova says a unspecified Western media was trying to create an impression that Russia would stop its bombing runs against Islamic State, the Nusra Front and other terrorist groups". "There was no talk of ending the fight against terrorism, there is no such talk and there won't be any," she said.
As far as this "Plan B" mentioned by John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made it clear that there is no "Plan B" on the Syria's ceasefire and will not be
With the annexation of Crimea and dominance of eastern Ukraine, Russia now wants to claim Syria with an outright victory for Damascus to show the rest of the world that it has the capacity to redefine the international order, or at least the guts to act as spoiler in chief."
To be sure, Assad's Syrian Arab Army — supported by Iran-backed Shi'ite militias, Hezbollah fighters, and Russian air cover will continue battling to retain control over the two most symbolically and strategically important cities in Syria. Those are Damascus and Aleppo.
Some analysts saw Kerry's comments as a subtle endorsement of partitioning Syria among Syrian President Bashar Assad, Sunni rebels, and Syrian Kurds (and the terrorist group ISIS, if the international coalition is unable to defeat the militants in the country's east.)
Kerry did not explicitly advocate this solution, but Russian officials said Moscow would not accept anything other than a political settlement with Russia via the Assad regime in complete control. The "cessation of hostilities" agreed by the United States and Russia is due to take hold on Saturday morning from midnight. But rebels say they expect the government to press on with its advance, by branding opposition fighters al Qaeda militants unprotected by the truce.
Russian air strikes turned momentum Assad's way in a 5-year-old war that has killed more than 250,000 people, created the world's worst refugee crisis and seen Islamic State fighters declare a "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq.
The multi-sided civil war has drawn in most regional and global powers, with Western countries, Arab states and Turkey forming a coalition against Islamic State while also backing rebels fighting to overthrow Assad. Russia and Iran support him.
Iran has forged An ARAB - MUSLIM alliance backed by Russian firepower that's purging the middle east and will engulf the European nations as well, thus reviving the roman empire and fulfilling end time prophecies. The Iranians are the true puppet master and will dictate every move the N.W.O. / U.N. makes as they reinvigorate, revitalize and restore the first true empire and re-establish the last.
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