Russian and Turkish soldiers started joint patrols in Syria
Russian military law enforcement first went in the joint with the Turks patrolling in Northern Syria, reports journalist Last news .
Russian military law enforcement first went in the joint with the Turks patrolling in Northern Syria, reports journalist Last news .
A convoy of five Russian and 4 Turkish cars left from the point of Derbesia at noon. Length of the route is 110 kilometres, agility of movement - 40-60 kilometers per hour.
As emphasized in the Ministry of defense of Russia, from patrol - Russian armored cars " Tiger ", "Typhoon" armored vehicle, and the Kirpi of Turkish border services. The safety of the column provides the BTR-82.
The situation in the Northern part of the Arab Republic deteriorated in early October, when Ankara launched the operation " Source of peace ", directed against Kurdish groups.
The seventeenth in coordination with the U.S. Turkey has suspended military operations so that the Kurds could bring your creation from a 30-kilometer buffer zone on the border.
last week the presidents of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a six-hour dialogue, the results of which signed a Memorandum of ten points.
The document provides input on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, outside the zone of operation "Source of peace" offices of the Russian military police and Syrian border guards. They are designed to facilitate the withdrawal of the Kurdish troops and their weapons and 30 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as carry out together with the Turks patrol.
On Tuesday it was announced the early withdrawal of the Kurds. Later was started reconnaissance flights and mine clearing on the routes of the Turkish-Russian observation.
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