The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has registered 19 ceasefire violations over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered nine truce breaches, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th February, 2021) The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission monitoring the implementation of the Syrian truce has registered 19 ceasefire violations over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered nine truce breaches, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
"The Russian part of the representative office of the joint Russian-Turkish Commission for consideration of issues related to violations of the cessation of hostilities recorded 19 cases of opening fire (confirmed by the Syrian side - 14) in provinces: Idlib - 9, Latakia - 5, Hama - 2, Aleppo - 3. The Turkish part of the representative office recorded nine incidents of opening fire (none of them were confirmed by the Russian part of the representative office)," the ministry said in its daily bulletin.
The ministry noted that the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring in Syria carried out one humanitarian operations in the past 24 hours, delivering 450 food kits to residents of the Hama province.
At the same time, 56 Syrian refugees, including 17 women and 28 children, have returned from Lebanon over the past day through the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints, the defense ministry said in a separate bulletin.
Engineering troops from the Syrian armed forces demined 1.9 hectares (4.7 acres) of land in the provinces of Damascus and Daraa in the past day, the ministry added. They discovered and defused nine explosive devices.
