UPDATE - Reconciliation Center Says Terrorists Shelled Syria's Idlib De-escalation Zone 35 Times

Muhammad Irfan Published June 10, 2021 | 03:00 AM

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 10th June, 2021) Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, said at a briefing that the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in Russia) had shelled Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone 35 times over the past 24 hours.

"Thirty-five shelling attacks from the positions of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group were registered in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the provinces of Idlib (16 attacks), Latakia (11), Aleppo (5) and Hama (3)," Rear Adm. Kulit said.

He said the number of attacks according to the Syrian side's data totaled 31.

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Kulit said no shelling on the part of illegal armed groups controlled by Turkey had been registered in the past day.

He said Russian military police units continued to escort civilian vehicles on the M4 highway between the Raqqa and al-Hasakah provinces.

The Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Control over the Movement of Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic was established in February 2016.

Its tasks include the signing of agreements on illegal armed groups and individual settlements joining the regime of cessation of hostilities, as well as coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid.