Russia warns U.N. of Syria resolution "scandal" MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister has warned Washington that any attempt to put a draft resolution on Syria to vote at the United Nations would lead to "scandal." Sergey Lavrov said in an interview broadcast Saturday on Russian state television Rossiya that Moscow had submitted its amendments to the Western-backed draft. He said that Russia hopes that "bias will not prevail over common sense." He said that the failure to take Russia's opinion into account will only lead to "another scandal at the U.N. Security Council." Special section: The Arab Spring U.N. diplomats fail to reach agreement on Syria Qatar PM: May be "No way out" of Syria civil war Russia and China, which wield veto power at the Security Council, have blocked previous Western attempts to impose sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime over its crackdown on protests. Russia is opposing any UN call for regime change or a military intervention in Syria. Lavrov's comments were broadcast in Russia as the Syrian regime denied reports by two human rights groups that more than 200 people had been massacred by government mortar fire in the opposition hotbed of Homs. Syrian State TV claimed Saturday that dozens of images and videos of dead bodies posted online by opposition groups - apparent victims of the assault on Homs, many of whom suffered horrific injuries - were actually people kidnapped and killed by "terrorist armed groups." Assad's government has blamed the violence on "terrorists," which it says are receiving support from foreign countries, for months. While making some concrete steps to implement reforms called for by the opposition, the crackdown by state security forces has continued. Even as Arab League monitoring teams - which were closely monitored themselves by Syrian security forces - fanned out across the country, violence between state forces and defectors continued. The Arab League's monitoring mission ended after one month, and the Arab foreign ministers involved, having proposed a peace plan calling for Assad to step down and had it firmly rejected by Syria, decided to take the measure to the United Nations. Russia remains the most significant hurdle for the U.S. and its Western and Arab partners as they try to pass the draft resolution, which, as written, includes a call for Assad to step down.