The United States suggested on Wednesday that if Syria continues to block efforts to drop food aid to its besieged communities that Russia might want to use its own planes for the task, AFP reports.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Russia, which with Washington is co-chair of the International Syrian Support Group, had passed on a Syrian offer to permit one convoy on Friday. But he expressed skepticism that Assad would indeed allow unfettered humanitarian access to the town of Daraya and said that this would not be enough in any case to meet its needs.