The Anadolu news agency reported a day earlier that Turkey was deploying military hardware to the border with Syria as a column of armoured vehicles and tanks reached the Reyhanli district of Hatay Province, bordering Syria's Idlib.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that Ankara won't allow Syrian Army attacks on the Turkish military in Idlib to go unanswered.
According to the president, the Turkish military has been in contact with its Russian counterparts since Turkish soldiers died in the north of Syria.
Meanwhile, the Russian military has stated that Turkish aircraft didn't breach the Syrian border, adding that it didn't register any strikes on Syrian government forces' positions.
“Turkish military units made movements within the Idlib de-escalation zone during the night from 2 to 3 February without informing the Russian military. They came under fire from Syrian government forces who were carrying out attacks on terrorists in the area west of the Seracab settlement”, the centre said in a statement.
It added that Russian and Turkish military were maintaining constant contact in order to evacuate the injured troops to Turkey.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has commented on the attack on Turkish troops, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, did not hold a phone conversation, though “the Russian and Turkish military are in…
