Reuters: Russia criticizes new leaders of Syria at a closed UN meeting.

At a closed briefing at the United Nations, Russia criticizes the new leaders of Syria. According to two sources, Moscow warns of the growing influence of jihadists in the country and compares the mass killings of Alawites to the genocide in Rwanda.

The criticism from Moscow regarding the Islamist rulers of Syria concerns two important military sites on the country's coast. This region suffered particularly heavily last week, when many members of the Alawite minority were killed.

The violence in the country began with an attack on the new government security forces, blamed on former army officers loyal to Bashar al-Assad. This attack provoked mass killings of Alawites in several provinces, for which groups are held responsible that are accused of ties to the new government.

The Kremlin, which previously supported Assad, calls for the preservation of Syria's unity and announces that it has contacted other countries regarding this issue.

However, at the closed meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday, convened by Moscow in conjunction with the United States, harsh criticism emerges, revealing the Kremlin's strategy for Syria's future.

According to two sources, the Russian representative compares ethnic and sectarian killings to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, when the Tutsi and moderate Hutu were mass exterminated. He states that 'nobody' is stopping the killings in Syria.