A spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, said that Turkey had not fulfilled its obligations regarding the Sochi Agreement to reduce the escalation in Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, explaining in a press statement that the terrorists in Idlib were getting very dangerous military equipment.
Peskov called for avoiding building negative scenarios regarding the development of "Russian-Turkish" relations, due to the tense situation in Idlib, noting at the same time that the Russian and Turkish military are in constant contact, and he made clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin supports the idea of holding the Quartet Summit on Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced, yesterday, that he will meet on March 5 with Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a four-way summit, to discuss the situation in Idlib, and Erdogan threatens a military operation if he does not stop the Syrian army Its operations in northwestern Syria.
Limited clashes erupted between the Syrian army and armed groups backed by Turkey in the areas east of Jabal al-Arbaeen, Sarmin and Quminas, in the southern and eastern Idlib countryside, and a field source said that Turkey sent large military reinforcements to the city of Kafr Nabl in the southeast Idlib countryside, to establish a large military base with the aim of preventing the Syrian army from Progress and control of the Aleppo road to Latakia.
The source, who is a field commander in the Syrian army, confirmed that the armed factions and the Turkish forces in the city of Kafr Nabl had bombed sites of the Syrian army, and the army forces responded by bombing the sites from which they came under fire.
The Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that units of the army monitored the movement of terrorist groups in the vicinity of the towns of Kafr Nabl and Mazarita and the village of Al-Fateira in the southern countryside of Idlib, and dealt with them with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades that cut off the means of supplying the terrorists, destroying fortifications and nests for them.
"SANA" revealed that the Turkish forces arrested dozens of terrorists who work under its command in the Ras Al-Ain region in the northwestern Hasaka countryside, due to their attempt to flee to Turkish lands, for their fear of participating in the battles and confronting the Syrian army, and civil sources in Hasaka said that Turkey closed the border to The terrorists arrested dozens of them, after they refused to go to combat in Idlib.
Clashes in Idlib countryside .. Turkey continues to send reinforcements to establish a military base.