According to the agency, for this purpose, additional armored vehicles, military personnel and ammunition trucks were deployed to northwestern Syria.

“In accordance with the Astana agreements, 12 observation posts of the Turkish Armed Forces have been created on the inner perimeter of the de-escalation zone,” the statement said.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, following talks with his Ghanaian colleague Shirley, Ayorkor Botchway, said that Russian and Turkish troops are in constant contact on the situation in the Syrian de-escalation zone in Idlib.