Russia has threatened to veto a UN Security Council resolution reauthorizing cross-border deliveries of vital aid into opposition-held north-western Syria.
The closure of the last route from Turkey would immediately put more than 3 million people at risk of starvation.
The UN says the number of Syrians in need is higher now than at any point during the 11-year civil war, as the toxic mix of years of fighting, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have devastated the country’s economy.
The World Food Programme says the cost of food has risen by 800% in just two years.
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