Moscow has launched a campaign urging civilians in Idlib to leave the city, in the wake of preparations for wide-scope military operations.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Syrian regime has prepared two special crossing points to contribute to the departure of the civilian population from Idlib to reduce the escalation.
Chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center for the Opposing Sides in Syria Major General Viktor Kupchishin said that “in order to ensure the voluntary and unhindered exit of civilians from the Idlib area to reduce the escalation, two crossing points were prepared.”
Kupchishin pointed out that the militants stationed in the zone to reduce shelling have bombed during the past 24 hours up to 13 towns in the provinces of Latakia and Hama, in addition to a scientific research center in Aleppo.
This announcement was followed by a Russian military statement accusing the armed members in Idlib of launching four missiles at the Russian Hmeimim air base near Latakia.
The Russian Defense Ministry added that drones dropped five bombs on the power station in Hama, leaving no casualties.
The Russian statements on terrorists intensifying attacks concurred with a media campaign on expanding the military operations against Jabhat al-Nusra and allied factions.
Further, the Russian media reported Syrian regime sources as saying that the warning to Idlib residents won't be for a long period of time.
Sources from Hama told Sputnik on Thursday that the Syrian defense systems intercepted drones coming from regions controlled by armed terrorist groups in the countryside of Hama.
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