The UN Security Council held a closed-door emergency meeting Friday (October 7th) to discuss the situation in Syria, AFP reported.
Russia requested the meeting to hear from UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who was to brief the council via video conference from Geneva, diplomats said.
De Mistura earlier took aim at Russia, suggesting it was indiscriminately bombing a city with hundreds of thousands of civilians to flush out just a few hundred extremists.
"We are talking about 900 people, basically, who are becoming the main reason for which there is 275,000 people actually being attacked," de Mistura said.
Would this, he asked, be the excuse for "the destruction of the city?"
The envoy urged fighters from Fatah al-Sham Front to leave Aleppo under a deal to halt the regime's attacks on the city.
Ahead of the closed-door talks on Friday, France and Britain called for an end to the Russian and Syrian bombing campaign over Aleppo.
