Muna Ali, Baladi News
About two years of the Russian direct military intervention in Syria were enough to make Russia monopolize almost fully the regions it calls "Useful Syria" from Hama and Homs till the Syrian coast and then Damascus reaching Houran.
This monopoly manifested in the two "de-escalation agreements" in the Syrian south and eastern Ghouta as Russia created the parties to sign on the agreement, then neglected them completely and started imposing its control and supervision on those regions.
Russia deployed a number of its military units along the borders of the "de-escalation region" south of Syria and established inspection and control centers as declared by the head of the operations room of the Russian Chief of Staff, General Sergei Rodzkoy. This comes with a total absence of the parties that sponsored and signed the agreement of the south with Russia, which are the US and Jordan.
The same scenario was also repeated in eastern Ghouta as Russia again established inspection and control points and deployed units of its forces in the region without any observations of the parties that signed the agreement.
Syrians are nowadays busy observing the events in Idlib and waiting for the results of the battles there after "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham" controlled most of the governorate which is considered the last fortress of the opposition. On the other hand, Moscow has declared through its Ministry of Defense that its planning to establish a new "de-escalation" zone in Idlib, but this doesn’t seem to be possible as Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham is now controlling the region and Russia is taking this as a pretext to bombard and kill civilians like the massacre it perpetrated on Monday and resulted in 9 martyrs, including 5 children and 2 women and so Russia is the ultimate and only controller over those de-escalation zones that it pretends to be protecting, but actually all it does is burning and destroying without documenting any of those breaches in the reports that de Mistura will take to the UN at a time when everybody withdrew from the Syrian case leaving the arena to Putin to try his weapons on the Syrians and use his diplomacy to break their will.