Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Moscow on August 27.

As Radio Liberty has reported, the talks are expected to focus of the situation in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.

"It's precisely for discussing this complicated situation that the presidents have agreed to have a meeting in Moscow,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on August 26.

Peskov said that Putin and Erdogan will also discuss on August 27 the Ukraine crisis as well as relations between Moscow and Ankara.

Hundreds of people, including many civilians, have been killed and tens of thousands of others fled toward the border with Turkey since Syrian government forces and ally Russia in April launched “anti terrorist” operations in Idlib.

Ankara has said that the assault was causing a humanitarian crisis and posed a threat to Turkey's national security.

Turkey already has taken in more than 3.6 million refugees from Syria since the conflict began with a government crackdown on protesters in March 2011.

Peskov told journalists Putin understood Erdogan’s concerns but that he was equally concerned about attacks by “terrorist elements” from Idlib that needed to be “stamped out and destroyed.”