SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): „Definitely, after this humanitarian ceasefire, [the shelling of Aleppo] will continue until the militants leave eastern Aleppo. It is clear to everyone, it is clear to our US partners. (…) On Monday it became clear that we would have the meeting and reconcile the agreement with US partners, and on Monday we were supposed to vote on the UN resolution on Eastern Aleppo. In this resolution, there was not a single word about a withdrawal of militants, it stated only about the ten-day ceasefire, as this ten-day break was obviously planned for the militants to take a breath and to get reinforcements. We proposed not to vote on this resolution in Security Council, as there is Russian-US agreement which conceptually differs from the current resolution. US representative [Samantha Power] claimed that she was not informed about it and she didn‘t see any sense in Russian-US contacts. When I asked John Kerry [US Secretary of State], he said: „yes, maybe, I hear about it for the first time, but I am not in charge of micro management in UN Security Council“. It is a little bit strange to term the highest international department on peacemaking and security as micro management.“