LONDON — Russia and Syria are responsible for the “heartbreaking human suffering” in the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, US President Donald Trump and his British counterpart Theresa May say.
The two leaders discuss the “appalling humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta” during a phone call Sunday detailed by May’s Downing Street office.
“They agreed it was a humanitarian catastrophe, and that the overwhelming responsibility for the heartbreaking human suffering lay with the Syrian regime and Russia, as the regime’s main backer,” the prime minister’s office says.
Syria’s regime has seized control of over a quarter of Eastern Ghouta, on the edges of the capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday.
May and Trump say, “Russia and others with influence over the Syrian regime must act now to cease their campaign of violence and to protect civilians.”
Syrians walk past destroyed buildings in Arbin in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on February 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abdulmonam Eassa)
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