The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied the claim of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the Turkish Air Force is bombing the embattled Idlib region.

The statement of the Ministry of Defence said that the airspace above the so-called "de-escalation zone" in Idlib is controlled by Russia. The Ministry remarked that Turkish air force had not violated the Syrian border and no attack on Syrian army positions had been detected.

The statement came after the mutual attacks by the Syrian regime and the Turkish state, which is an occupying power in Syria.

According to Ankara, four Turkish soldiers were killed and nine others injured in an attack by the Syrian army. Erdoğan claimed on Monday morning that 30 to 35 Syrian soldiers had been killed and currently F-16 fighter jets and artilleries are striking the points in the region established by Turkey’s secret service MIT.

According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), six Syrian soldiers have been killed and over twenty injured in the Turkish attack. Dozens of missiles fired by Turkey hit the Syrian army positions near the city of Saraqeb in the countryside of Idlib, according to the SOHR statement.