“Over the past 24 hours, one shelling was recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group in the province of Idlib,” reads a message posted on the Russian Defense Ministry’s Facebook page.

Earlier, Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, deputy head of the Russian Central Air Defense Center in Syria, said that terrorists from the Idlib de-escalation zone, according to the Syrian authorities, were planning terrorist attacks in the ports of Tartus and Latakia.

"Jabhat al-Nusra" ("Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham", "Jabhat Fatah ash-Sham", "Al-Nusra Front") - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 12/29/2014.