(CNN) -- Scores of people were killed in violence across Syria on Monday, opposition activists said, while Russia insisted a political solution was the only answer to end the bloodshed. Here are fresh developments in Syria's bloody civil war: Opposition: 50 regime soldiers killed at checkpoint A suicide bomber killed at least 50 Syrian soldiers Monday at a checkpoint in Hama province, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The opposition group said the bomber was from the al-Nusra Front, which has claimed responsibility for past suicide attacks. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said a suicide bomber killed two people and injured 10 others.
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NEW: 162 are dead in Syria, including 32 in a "massacre" in Idlib province, opposition says
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Opposition activists say a suicide bomber kills 50 Syrian soldiers
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A Russian diplomat rejects U.N.- Arab League envoy's call for transition-of-power resolution
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"If the priority is to save lives" in Syria, there is no need for such a resolution, diplomat says
They're simply designed to insure that those @placeholder voices inside Syria...are heard and are part of the process."