He said that the militants of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham * terrorist group, with the support of other illegal armed groups, launched attacks from 21:40 on January 16 to break through the positions of government forces in the area of several settlements of Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
“When repelling the attacks, about 50 militants were destroyed, seven pickups with heavy machine guns mounted on them, and one jihadmobile,” Borenkov said.
He also said that on January 17, militants, using UAVs, attacked a position of government troops in the Assad Academy area in the city of Aleppo.
“Two Syrian soldiers were killed, four more were injured. In total, during the clashes with militants of illegal armed groups over the past 24 hours, 24 soldiers and soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Syrian Arab Republic were killed and wounded, ”Borenkov added.
On January 15, the FAN reported that the Russian side, as part of the work of the armistice commission in Syria, recorded 38 facts of a ceasefire violation per day.
* “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (“Jabhat Fath al-Sham”, “Front al-Nusra”, “Jabhat al-Nusra”) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.