Mohammed Abu Zaid, spokesperson for Ahrar al-Sham, welcomed the targeting of Russian military bases in Syria (Hameimim air base and Tartous al-Bahariya), while denying that they were behind the attack.

Abu Zayd said in an exclusive interview with the Syria Call or (Nedaa Syria) news network that the movement welcomes this targeting of the occupying forces regardless of who is responsible for it. It denies the fact that they has neither targeted any of the airports & bases of the Russian occupation forces aircraft during the previous period with an unmanned drone, nor has such a technology with the fact that this is a legitimate right in the face of the Russian occupier who commits war crimes against the Syrian people. "

On the Russian accusations, he said: "We believe that these Russian allegations are intended to indict certain factions to strike at their geographical areas and to take this as a pretext to kill civilians. We call upon the international community and its superpowers to carry out their moral and humanitarian duty to condemn the targeting of civilians by the Russians and the regime, and to exert the necessary pressure to stop these crimes, and the silence of the international community has made them partners in recent years. "

On the current position of the attack on the province of Idlib and the charges against them to decline of confronting, "Abu Zeid" responded: "Many are wondering about the current capability of the movement" Ahrar Sham" in the north as some parties accused us of not being efficient on the fighting fronts, and here We wish to clarify some facts concerning the status of the movement after the aggression of "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham" HTS, which took place in the seventh month of last year and significantly affected the military effectiveness and its pivotal role in the north, while previously Ahrar al-Sham were at more than one third of the stationing points in Idlib and its vicinity, which inforced us to restruct and focus efforts on the internal body building over the last five-month period, according to the available resources, and we chose to inform the public for the first time on these details so that everyone is aware of the magnitude of the disaster that we has been suffering of ,which led to weaken our abilities, and today each party and people themselves are paying the price. "

Abu Zaid added: "The number of headquarters acquired by HTS as a result of the last aggression in the north were more than 150 headquarters, including the whole workfields (10) of manufacturing and technical development workshops with the full equipment, machinery and materials, which stopped all manufacturing operations since then.

The number of vehicles, vehicles and gears looted about 400 mechanisms including most of the mechanisms of immunization and tank carriers (loaders) ,dozens of pickups ,tens of vans and cars, heavy weapons, about a hundred include ten guns ,five tanks and four vehicles BMPs and dozens of grenades ,mortars and bases.

The looted medium weapons consisted of 140 weapons, including 26 artillery, 78 machine guns, 19 mortars, 8 rocket launchers and 13 missiles launchers.

The number of light weapons captured was more than 1,000, including more than 700 rifles, 120 machine guns and 80 launchers. Large quantities of heavy, medium and light weapons, including more than 100 Grad missiles, hundreds of heavy artillery shells, hundreds of tank shells of various types and hundreds of thousands of medium and light weapons ammunition. Some of these weapons, mechanisms, equipment and ammunition were seized during the last aggression conducted against the headquarters of the stationing and fighting fronts in the southern countryside of Aleppo and the fighting fronts against PKK militia, which at that time were about sixty stationing points , and the desert sector, which is experiencing fighting now, has been stripped almost completely of all types of weapons and capabilities.

The spokesman resumed saying : "We can not fail to note that the main economic sources of the movement were targeted and controlled almost entirely by Tahrir al-Sham, which affected the movement's proportion of presence on the northern fronts and its ability to cover the needs of its fighters.

Despite these difficult conditions and lack of material resources the movement has gathered momentum during the last period and began to recover and achieved important achievements such as the battle of the "Vehicles Base" in Harasta in partnership with the rest of the rebels of Ghouta area, and in the north it announced the mobilization because of the difficult situation on the eastern front and pushed large groups of soldiers to fill the points and stop the march of the regime and repel its troops ,God willing, and the current (dynamic) is changing the course of the battles, and the movement will have its distinctive fingerprints during the next stage, God willing. "

The Russian regime-affiliated newspaper "Kommersant" in a report on Monday accused Ahrar al-Sham that it was behind the attack by unmanned drones that targeted the Russian bases, noting that the Russian military forces were able to decrypt data ,control over the drones and drop them safely.