“The units of the military police of the Armed forces of Russia conducted another patrol. During patrolling, a convoy of automotive vehicles covered by the Mi-8AMTSh and Mi-35 army aviation helicopters covered a route with a total length of over 300 km, ”Dmitriev said.

He stated that the patrol was carried out “in order to monitor the situation along the state border of the Syrian Arab Republic, in remote areas of Zaevfrati, as well as to maintain a peaceful situation in regions controlled by government forces.”

Earlier, the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that a bomb exploded on the path of the Russian-Turkish patrol in Syrian Idlib, and the Russian armored personnel carrier was slightly damaged.