In reaction to the attack on the aid convoy, on Monday, British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, says “Russia may have committed war crimes” if it was responsible for the attack.
While the U.S. representative in the United Nations, Samantha Power, accused Russia of barbarism, over the bombing in Aleppo, Johnson said Moscow was guilty of prolonging the war in the country.
The 31-truck convoy was attacked on Monday night, killing about 20 civilians, a strike which U.S. officials believe was carried out by a Russian aircraft.
Moscow on the other hand, has denied responsibility, blaming the attacks on rebel shelling or a US drone also with claims that the incident was caused by fire on the ground and not by an air strike.
Key Battleground
United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura described the attack on the aid convoy and Syrian warehouse outside Aleppo, as an “outrage”, while the United Kingdom and the United States have been blaming Russia for the current situation in Syria.
The northern city of Aleppo has become a key battleground in Syria’s bloody, five-year civil war and the attack has prompted the U.N. to temporarily suspend aid supplies in Syria.
The U.N. says the attacks on Aleppo have left nearly two million people without water.
The attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Touman also killed at least nine rebel fighters and was reported to have been “carried out by either Syrian or Russian warplanes”, UK-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.