The Russian military has signed a ceasefire deal with the government of Syria’s Latakia province that became the first agreement of a kind made since the breakout of the bloody conflict, Russia’s reconciliation center reported.

Alexander Vorontsov, a member of Russian Syria reconciliation center in Latakia province, said to reporters that the deal has become the first instance of Russian military signing a ceasefire agreement with a provincial administration in Syria. Earlier deals were signed with distinct settlements, he explained.