This was announced by the head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the warring parties in the SAR, Major General Yuri Borenkov.
“At 17:20, after a massive shelling of positions of government forces from multiple launch rocket systems and artillery, up to 200 fighters, supported by 10 cross-country vehicles with large-caliber weapons mounted on them, attacked the positions of the Syrian Arab Army in the vicinity of the settlements of Umm Halahil and Zarzur in Idlib province ", - said in a message received by RT.
According to Borenkov, three pickup trucks of the militants were destroyed when repelling the attack.
In addition, militants in groups of up to 40 and up to 60 people tried to attack the positions of military personnel in the areas of Taman and Zaitun. All attacks are repelled.
On December 17, the CPVS reported that as a result of an attack by militants in Idlib province, three Syrian soldiers were killed and another 20 were injured.