British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said today that London "regrets" the fall of the Syrian city of Aleppo under the full control of forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
"It looks like Aleppo is going to fall, unfortunately," Fallon told the BBC, refusing to characterize the possible fall of Aleppo to the Syrian army as a complete victory for the government in Damascus.
"The Syrian regime controls only 40 percent of the Syrian territory, and the majority of the population is against it. People's support cannot be gained by bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid convoys," he said.
Fallon added that the UK would continue to ask Russia to "use its influence to end the civil war in Syria and help rebuild it".
He also said that he is ready to cooperate with the future US Defense Minister James Mattis with the aim of "calming tensions in relations with Moscow" and reaching a solution to end the conflict in Syria, but he assessed that Russia "cannot be treated equally, because it is strategically rival of the West".
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