MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Aircraft belonging to the US-led international coalition made three unauthorized incursions into Syria’s airspace over the al-Tanf area in the past 24 hours, Major General Yury Popov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said.
"The aircraft of the so-called international counterterrorism coalition led by the United States continues to create dangerous situations in Syria’s airspace by performing flights in breach of the deconfliction protocols and violating Syria’s airspace. Over the past 24 hours, three violations by the coalition of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019, related to flights by unmanned aerial vehicles not coordinated with the Russian side, were recorded," he said.
Popov pointed out that by doing so, the coalition continues to create dangerous preconditions for air incidents and accidents, and also aggravates the situation in Syria’s airspace.
In addition, the general said that over the past 24 hours, two shelling attacks by the Jabhat al-Nusra and Turkistan Islamic Party terrorist groups (both are banned in Russia) against the Syrian government forces’ positions had been recorded.
A Syrian soldier was killed and another was wounded as a result of artillery fire opened by terrorists from the area of Duwayr al-Akrad on the Syrian government forces’ positions outside Safsafa in Latakia province.
In Idlib province, three Syrian soldiers were wounded in an engagement with terrorists’ reconnaissance and sabotage group outside Kafranbel.