Russia asked the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, to call for Syria’s sovereignty be respected, for cross-border shelling and incursions to be halted. It also calls for abandoning attempts or plans for foreign ground intervention. Russia circulated a short draft resolution to the 15-member council over concerns about an escalation in hostilities after Turkey this week said it and other countries could commit ground troops to Syria. The Security Council met Friday to discuss the draft, but veto powers the United States, France and Britain all said it had no future.
Turkey has been shelling positions of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in response to what it says is hostile fire coming across the border into Turkey.