"The cessation of hostilities in Syria has been respected in most of the Syrian provinces. However, a total of seven violations of the ceasefire regime have been registered, including three each in the Latakia and the Damascus provinces, and one in the Aleppo province," the ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website.
"The number of settlements that have joined the reconciliation process has increased to 70 as an agreement with a settlement in the Homs province has been signed by the Syrian authorities in the past 24 hours," the ministry also noted.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that some 500 wounded and ill civilians have been evacuated from four settlements in two Syrian provinces in the past 24 hours.
"The Syrian Red Crescent organization supported by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Syrian Arab Republic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria and the UN has evacuated 500 injured and sick civilians from blocked settlements of Fuah and Kafr Khaya in the Idlib province, Zabadani and Madaya in the Damascus province," the ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website.
