The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with the US Secretary of State John Kerry, during which they discussed the situation in Syria, writes the Russian Foreign Ministry's Facebook page.

"Heads of the foreign services continued discussion of the situation in Syria, including opportunities for normalization of the situation in Aleppo, where illegal armed groups, despite of the Russian-American agreements on cessation of fire by the conflicting sides, continue fighting. Many groups of the "moderate" Syrian opposition refuse to dissociate themselves from Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists, which are not subject to the cease-fire,” states the source text. The ministers also noted that the conversation took place on the initiative of the American side.