There was sniper fire and exchanges of small-arms and machinegun fire throughout the day around the sports stadium, where rebels had advanced on government lines.
And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7, 000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machinegun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is nonaggressive.