The representatives of the two factions of the Syrian armed opposition said about the destruction in the South of the air force of the government forces. About it reports France 24.
“The plane was shot down and fell in a controlled regime [of President Bashar al-Assad’s] territory. We have no information about the fate of the pilot”, — said the representative of one of the factions.
The human rights organization “Syrian Observatory for human rights” confirmed that the plane was shot down over the administrative border of the provinces of Damascus and Suwayda.
This region is part of a zone de-escalation provided for in the new agreement on the ceasefire, agreed the United States, Russia and Jordan, which entered into force on 9 July.
Two days earlier, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov confirmed the agreement on ceasefire in the South of Syria. According to him, “the United States assumed the duty to comply with the cease-fire by all factions that are there”. Lavrov added that “at first the security around the area of de-escalation will be provided with the use of forces and means of the Russian military police and in coordination with the Jordanians and the Americans.”
Ceasefire in Syria was announced after a conversation between the presidents of Russia and the USA Vladimir Putin and Donald trump, which took place at the summit of the countries “Big twenty” in Hamburg.