The pro-Assad groups in Syria from Aleppo reportedly began to enter the Afrin region.

The Lebanese-based Hezbollah's military media unit announced that the pro-Syrian regime "People's Unions" was begun to enter Afrin territory.

It was expressed that the troops had crossed from Ez-Ziyara passage point north of Nubul town to Afrin.

YPG's Afrin Spokesman also confirmed to Sputnik that Syrian government forces had entered Afrin.

Syrian state television al-Ihbariya has published images of the entrance of hundreds of members of the heavily armed pro-Assad militia into Afrin into.

In the phone conversation with Russian President Putin on Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned that "there will be consequences if the Syrian regime enters to this route".

ILKHA