Russia registers 9 truce violations in Syria in past 24 hours

A Russian ceasefire monitoring center in Syria says it has registered at least nine truce violations in Syria over the past 24 hours.

According to Press TV, Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko, the head of Russian coordination center in Syria, said the violations included shelling in the northern province of Latakia.

However, Kuralenko noted that the cessation of hostilities agreed as part of a US-Russian plan was holding "in general."

Russia recently opened the coordination center at its Hmeymim airbase in Latakia in an attempt to facilitate talks and the implementation of a monitoring ceasefire mechanism between Damascus and different opposing parties.

Meanwhile, Rodi Osman, the head of the Syrian Kurdish mission to Moscow, has also said that Turkish forces have once again fired shells into Syrian towns controlled by Kurdish forces, violating a ceasefire that has recently come into effect in the Arab country. He added that Turkey must be urged to stop "violating Syria's sovereignty."

Sergey Rudskoy, the chief of the main operations department of the Russian General Staff, announced at a recent briefing that at least seventy Russian surveillance drones will be monitoring the ceasefire across the Arab country.

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