Russia tensions with US ‘more dangerous’ than during the Cold War

Mounting tensions between the US and Russia have led to a global political situation which is “more dangerous” than the Cold War, the German foreign minister has said.

 

Relations between the two countries hit a new low on Friday after Washington accused Moscow of war crimes following a sustained bombardment of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.

 

US, British and French ambassadors to the UN walked out of an emergency meeting of the Security Council last month when their Syrian counterpart rose to defend the air strikes which ended the fragile ceasefire after less than a week.

 

At least 250,000 people are still living in the rebel-held east of the city which has suffered almost daily bombardment by Russian forces as part of a bid to recapture it.

 

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