Turkish Defense Minister, Khulusi Akar, said yesterday that the cease-fire in Idlib in Syria, which was reached within the framework of the agreement with Russia, did not witness violations, while Moscow indicated violations of the cease-fire in the region.
"We will remain a deterrent force to prevent any violation of the ceasefire, nothing has happened since the ceasefire came into effect, and we will use the right of self-defense if there is any attack targeting our forces or bases in the region," Akar was quoted by Turkish media as saying. Turkey has started work on laying the safe passage around the road, and a Russian military delegation will visit Ankara, this week, to discuss next steps.
On the other hand, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Ministry of Defense as saying, in a statement, that there were three incidents of shooting in Idlib in the past 24 hours, and that there were seven other shootings in Latakia, and nine cases in Aleppo, and the ministry also said that 860 refugees returned to Syria from Jordan and Lebanon, during the past 24 hours.
The Russian Coordination Center announced that terrorists violated the cessation of hostilities agreement in Idlib six times, the day before yesterday, by attacking residential areas and locations of the Syrian army in Aleppo and Lattakia countryside.
"The terrorists fired six times on residential neighborhoods in the de-escalation zone in Idlib, after the announcement of a system to stop the hostilities," said the head of the Russian Coordination Center, Major Oleg Goravlyov, after the announcement of the regime to stop the hostilities. Island, Aleppo Governorate, and locations of the Syrian Army in the Kabani and Akko areas of Lattakia Governorate.
A ceasefire was reached in Moscow after talks to contain the conflict, and about one million people were displaced due to clashes between the Syrian army and the armed militias supported by Ankara.
The agreement called for joint patrols of Turkish and Russian forces in the vicinity of the M-4 road in the Idlib region, starting from March 15.
In addition, Iranian news agencies reported that the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Debian, was killed in Syria yesterday, without giving details of how he died, but the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that Debrian was assassinated in the Sayyida Zainab area south Damascus.
On the other hand, Britain asked the United Nations to provide more detailed information to the Security Council on groups that cannot reach it with humanitarian aid in Syria.
In a letter to the United Nations humanitarian aid official, Mark Lockock, Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations, Karen Pearce, also requested information on the types of aid shipments the United Nations should seek approval for from the authorities in Damascus.
Western diplomats said that the closure of the Iraq crossing had reduced medical aid to northeastern Syria by 40%.
For his part, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, denounced fears of reducing aid transfers across the border, and said that the situation on the ground had changed and that aid was reaching needy areas from inside Syria.
Russian Coordination Center:
• “The terrorists violated the cessation of hostilities agreement six times, and attacked the residential areas and sites of the Syrian army.”