and just in time for a UNSC meeting today in NY. how convenient:

"BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the developments in Syria and Turkey’s offensive on the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin (all times local):

4:45 p.m.

The United States is accusing Russia of “costing innocent Syrian lives” amid new reports of a suspected chemical attack in Syria.

Activists and rescue teams say the Syrian government launched an attack with suspected poisonous gas that affected nearly 20 civilians in a rebel-held suburb near Damascus.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says Moscow’s “unwillingness or inability to restrain the Assad regime is costing innocent Syrian lives.” She says the United States has tried to hold responsible those using chemical weapons in attacks that “have killed far too many Syrians.”

Nauert is blaming Russia for thwarting efforts at the U.N. “to protect those civilian lives.” She’s calling on Russia to bring Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government to the table for talks on a political resolution to the civil war."

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