“In the Idlib de-escalation zone, 31 shelling was recorded from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (including, according to the Syrian side, 31 shelling), of which in Idlib province - 12 shelling, in Latakia province - 12 shelling, in the province Aleppo - 3 attacks, in the province of Hama - 4 attacks, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier it was reported that sappers of the Russian armed forces destroyed a cave abandoned by militants in the Syrian "white desert" near Palmyra, which was previously used as a command post.

“Jabhat al-Nusra” (“Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”, “Jabhat Fath al-Sham”, “Front al-Nusra”) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.