A resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, France or Britain to pass. (Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images)De Mistura said he hoped the security council would agree to a resolution calling for a ceasefire in eastern Ghouta, but acknowledged it would be difficult. "Those who support the terrorists are responsible" for the situation in eastern Ghouta, Kremlins pokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters. "Witnesses that we are speaking to on the ground are saying that it's 'raining bombs,'" she told Reuters in Geneva. We have a convoy ready to be sent to eastern Ghouta ...as soon as there is reduction in the intensity of the fighting," he told Reuters at a media briefing in Beirut.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2018 13:53 UTC