“Over the past day, shelling by illegal armed groups controlled by Turkey has not been registered,” RIA Novosti quoted Zhuravlev as saying.

He said that “one shelling of the village of Mellaj in Idlib province was recorded from the position of the Jebhat al-Nusra terrorist organization.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia notes Turkey’s efforts to oust militants from the M4 highway in the Syrian province of Idlib and expects completion of the work to separate the opposition and terrorists in the region.

“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.