The UN Security Council is struggling to agree a resolution seeking a ceasefire in Syria and has put back a vote until Saturday.
The vote has already been delayed several times since Thursday.
Russia wanted changes to a draft that calls for a 30-day calm to allow for aid deliveries and medical evacuations.
Western diplomats have accused Russia, Syria's key ally, of stalling for time. France said failure to act may spell the end of the UN itself.
Minds have been focused amid outrage at the plight of civilians in the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave.
Activists say 462 people have now been killed there this week.
Warplanes maintained the bombardment on Friday, witnesses said. Douma and Hamouriyeh were among areas hit.
Western powers suspect that Moscow wants to give Syria time to deal a final blow to forces defending the rebel-held enclave on the edge of Damascus.
Eleven rebel and civil groups based in Eastern Ghouta called on the UN to end the Assad massacres, saying Russia is a partner in Gouta’s bloodshed along with Iran and Hezbollah militia.
The United States, the UK and France had called for the resolution to be approved without delay. UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura said a truce had to be followed by immediate, unhindered access to the Eastern Ghouta.
Commenting on Friday evening, US President Donald Trump pointed the finger of blame firmly at Syria and its allies, Russia and Iran, for the humanitarian crisis.
"What those three countries have done to people over the last, short period of time is a disgrace," he said, speaking alongside the visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Washington.
Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl taht Russia had supplied the regime forces with urgent shipments of weapons and air bombs a day before regime forces launched an all-out offensive to seize the eastern enclave of Damascus.
Most of ammunition and weapons were delivered to Al-Dumayr military airport, 30 miles (45 km) east of the capital and located at the eastern gate of embattled Ghouta suburbs.
What does the draft resolution say?
The draft, put forward by Kuwait and Sweden, calls for a nationwide truce to go into effect 72 hours after the resolution is passed.
Medical evacuations and aid deliveries would start 48 hours after that. The draft says 5.6 million people in 1,244 communities across the country are in acute need.
Sweden's UN ambassador Olof Skoog told the BBC that getting aid to the Eastern Ghouta, where conditions were described by the UN secretary general as "hell on earth", was the main objective.
"I think that without the pressure coming from a united Security Council things are not happening the way they should on the ground," he said.
"So I think for the council it's a little bit less about the details and more about giving a political pressure to ensure that this happens."
(Zaman Al Wasl- BBC)
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