Russian military police arrive in Kobani

ARK News: A Russian military police convoy arrived in Kobani, a Syrian town with Kurdish majority, under the Russian-Turkish agreement on the withdrawal of SDF from the northern border area.

Russian military police have arrived in the northern Syrian town of Kobani for joint patrols with the Turkish military, officer Mikhail Elsukov told reporters.

The military is responsible for "ensuring the control of the posts and respect for peace on this territory," he said.

The officer added that the Turkish military, in coordination with the Russians, will follow a route previously worked out. According to him, the inhabitants of Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish city, greeted the Russian convoy as it passed.

He said that after the arrival of the Syrian army, the YPG militants "were withdrawing from their positions to allow Syrian troops to occupy the positions of the vanguard."

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that dozens of armored vehicles had been sent to the Hamaimim base in Syria to meet the needs of the military police.

Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a memorandum on 22 October in Sochi that plans to deploy Russian military police and Syrian border guards in northern Syria. The military in these countries will have to ensure the withdrawal of SDF and their armament from a 30-kilometer-deep strip along the border in northeastern Syria near Turkey. This territory had been targeted by the Ankara offensive.

Beginning October 29, Russians and Turks will begin patrolling a 10-kilometer-deep strip of Syrian territory.
Source: MbS News

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