A former cabinet minister has likened Russian bombing in Syria to Nazi attacks in Spain in the 1930s ahead of an emergency Commons debate on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo.
Andrew Mitchell accused Russia of “shredding” international law and committing a war crime by attacking a UN relief convoy last month.
He compared it to the destruction of the Basque city of Guernica by fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Russia says it is targeting terrorists.
The northern city of Aleppo has become a key battleground in Syria’s bloody five-year civil war.
