Peskov commented on the situation on the Syrian border
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said the situation in Northern Syria After the signing of the Russian-Turkish Memorandum.
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said the situation in Northern Syria After the signing of the Russian-Turkish Memorandum.
"now we deploy our personnel and equipment, as well As personnel and equipment to Syrian border guards in delineated areas, which in itself is a positive development and speaks about the fact that in line with the agreements reached and enshrined in the Memorandum of agreement specific work is under way," said the spokesman.
according to his statement, in the early stages, we cannot exclude some roughness.
He said that currently contacts With authorized the Kurds, who spoke in support of the reached consensus and expressed the intention to follow them, And also suggested, what happens if the Kurdish units will not be allocated from the buffer zone.
"Of course, between them in these zones, the border and our enforcement officers, the military will not stand, and then, of course, unfortunately, these Kurdish units will be one on one With the Turkish armed forces," concluded Sands.
On October 9, Turkey conducted in Northern Syria operation " Source world ", directed against Kurdish groups. Two days before that, the head of the United States Donald trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces From North of the Arab country.
then the Kurds appealed to Damascus and signed an agreement on total opposition to the Turks. The Syrian army was tied to the Northern borders and took several first Kurdish-controlled towns, as well As among them for the first time in 5 years came in Raqqa.
The seventeenth of October, Ankara, in coordination With Washington has suspended operation to the Kurds would withdraw its the creation of a 30-kilometer buffer zone on the border. And October 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held in Sochi six hours of dialogues, the results of which signed a Memorandum of ten points.
for example, it is reported that on the Syrian side of the border With Turkey (outside the zone of operation "Source of peace" ) is entered units of the Russian military police and Syrian border service. They will assist in the removal of the offices of the Kurdish forces 30 kilometers from the border, which is owed over a period of 150 hours.
then the Russian and the Turkish military will begin joint patrols to a depth of ten kilometers from the border to the West and East of the operations area " Source of peace ", with the exception of the city of Qamishli.
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