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RFE/RL: Russia hit with outrage at UN over attacks on Syrian children

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published Oct. 27, 2016 at 7:02 am

Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, attends the United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on the situation in Syria, at the United Nations September 25, 2016 in New York. The UN Security Council met for urgent talks on Sunday as Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held east Aleppo in the worst surge of bombing to hit the devastated city in years. Britain, France and the United States called the emergency meeting to turn up pressure on Russia and press demands that it rein in its ally Syria to halt the intense bombing campaign on Aleppo. (AFP)

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Russia was confronted with sharp accusations at the United Nations of killing dozens of children and other civilians in Syria, provoking an angry response from Moscow’s UN ambassador.

UNICEF and monitoring groups reported on October 26 that air strikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed 35 people, including at least 22 children and six schoolteachers in rebel-held Idlib province.