Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the Castello Road in Aleppo could not be used as a humanitarian supply line because the Syrian opposition „threatens to fire at any convoy,“ during an interview with the BBC, conducted in Moscow on Friday.

According to Lavrov, after the ceasefire had been announced on September 12, „the Syrian government did start pulling back its forces from the Castello Road and the opposition was supposed to do the same; they never did. Instead they started firing to get the Syrian forces pulling back from Castello Road.“