In the course of last 24 hours, preliminary ceasefire agreements have been achieved with 5 commanders of armed units with total staff up to 550 men active in the Damascus province.
In total, 35 ceasefire application forms have been signed with leaders of armed groupings.
Negotiations with leaders of 4 armed formations active in the provinces of Damascus, Daraa and Hama are being held.
Total number of towns, which had joined the ceasefire agreements, remained 42 ones.
Results of ceasefire monitoring
In the course of last 24 hours, 8 ceasefire violations have been registered (Hama - 2, Aleppo, Idlib - 3 in each).
Comment: The truce in general is holding. Good news, right? Not for the West, according to Chatham House analyst Keir Giles:
... by meeting a wide range of Russian objectives, not limited to Syria itself, it also stores up trouble for the West. In particular, the agreement has confirmed for Russia that assertive military intervention is the most effective means of achieving swift and positive (for Moscow) foreign policy results. ... the ceasefire agreement significantly diminishes the perceived power of the West, and in particular of the United States. ... all of these processes, and in particular the confirmation that Western policy can be changed through military action, will embolden Russia to be firmer in pursuit of its objectives in future. This makes it even harder for the West to protect itself against Russian assertiveness - especially in the absence of demonstrated political will to do so, and of significant military force in European states bordering Russia to act as a present and credible deterrent.What a whiner.
Attacks on Fua and Kafria (Idlib province) are continued.
Thus, on March 6, 2016 on 5 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. Ahrar al-Sham militants performed two attacks on Fua city sections from fire positions located near Minish by mortars and antitank guided missiles.
Russian Aerospace Forces and Syrian Air Forces did not make strikes on armed formations, which follow ceasefire regime and informed the Russian or American Centres for reconciliation about their location.
Comment: Russian Jets Only Bombing Terrorists' Positions in Syria:
"Russian Aerospace Forces' aircraft from the Hmeymim airbase are striking only the Daesh and Nusra Front terrorist groups in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor and near the Tadmur district in Homs province," ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov stated.
Humanitarian aid to the population of Syria
Officers of the Russian Centre for reconciliation and representatives of reconciliation commission, elders and public representatives of Ruheiba (Damascus province) held a working meeting.
Forming of another humanitarian convoy is continued.
Comment: Five days ago, the Russian MOD sent a list of settlements in need of aid to the UN:
"On the basis of numerous appeals from local [Syrian] administrations, as well as on the basis of our own data, on March 2, the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria prepared a list of settlements which urgently require the delivery of humanitarian aid. The document, which is a specific list, was sent to the UN," Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.Saudi Arabia has apparently hopped on board the humanitarian bandwagon, pledging food and medical supplies:
According to Al Arabiya broadcaster, supervisor general of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre and adviser at the Royal Court Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Rabeah and Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies Elhadj Amadou Sy signed on Saturday an agreement to provide food and medical aid to the most devastated regions in Syria.Now, how about they stop aiding the terrorists?
Additional information
Working teleconference session with the Chief of the American Coordination Centre in Amman, representative of the international support group of Syria in Geneva, and representative of the US defence department, who covers Middle East region, took place.
The session participants discussed situation in different regions of the Syrian Arab Republic, ceasefire observing and violations, and issues concerning providing humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.
Terrorists are still taking efforts to set back the peacemaking process in Syria.
Jabhat al-Nusra militants carried out several mortar attacks against Turkish territory near Metishli on March 6, 2016.
Actions performed by terrorists are aimed to provoke fire in response of the Turkish military and to bring troops into the Syrian territory. That will unfailingly tear down the ceasefire.
A number of ISIS formations have concentrated in the Turkish territory near Nusaybin (1.5 far from the Syrian border). Terrorists are preparing for the attack against Kamyshliyah, which is located on the Syrian territory and populated with Syrian Kurds.
Comment: Turkey, in turn, continues to shell Kurdish positions in Syria.
A leader of the Syrian Democratic Council opposition group, Haytham Manna, also accused Turkey and other "so-called" moderate groups of sabotaging the peace talks scheduled for Wednesday, telling Sputnik: "There are attacks against civilian Arabs and Kurds from the so-called moderate groups. Also, Turkey opened the border for many armed people who came from Turkish territories to the north of Aleppo." He also revealed that a unified list of opposition members has yet to be drawn up for the talks, adding, "The group of Riyadh is very conservative and they would not like to see any other oppositioners [taking part in the talks]."
"With only one thing can we take part in the talks — ceasefire. That means a military agreement, not a political one. On the political level, nothing has changed since the last meeting in Geneva. So we are waiting," Manna stated on Monday. Manna added that there have been no "really new dynamics" so far, therefore, he is "very pessimistic."
Near Narb Nafsa (Hama province), terrorists filmed demonstrating conflict between two armed groupings.
They used small arms, incendiary bottles and different imitation means. The video is to be used to accuse the Syrian army of violating ceasefire.
Jund al-Malihash militants blocked roadway between Nahtah and al-Harak (Daraa province). They stop automobiles with civilians and threaten their life for refusing to participate in the combat actions.
The facts are the evidence that terrorists and several illegal armed groups active in Syria take efforts to set back ceasefire regime in the Syrian territory.
Comment: The rumors look true: The U.S. is reportedly constructing two airbases in Kurdish-held northern Syria. According to Syrian Democratic Forces sources "scores" of U.S. experts worked on the first of them, which straddles the Turkish and Iraqi borders with Syria. Meanwhile, the U.S. conducted 6 illegal airstrikes in Syria, allegedly targeting Daesh.