Russian military police begins withdrawal of Kurdish militia from Syrian-Turkish border

ARK News: The Russian military police are currently helping in the withdrawal of Kurdish people's defense units and their armaments from the 30-kilometer-wide zone on the Syrian-Turkish border, according to the key messages of a speech by the head of the Russian Center for Conciliation in Syria, Major General Sergei Romanenko.

In accordance with the agreements and points of the Memorandum on Mutual Understanding of 22 October, the units of the Russian Military Police and the Syrian Border Service from the Zone "Peace Spring" were sent to the Syrian side of the Syrian side from October 23 at 12:00 noon. brought to the Turkish border.

According to Romanenko, they are supposed to contribute to the arming and withdrawal of the Kurdish People's Defense Units, which are to withdraw 30 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish border, by 18:00 on 29 October.

After that, the joint Russian-Turkish patrol launches at a depth of up ten kilometers west and east of Operation Peace, with the exception of the city of Qamishlo, continued the major general

He added that all units of the Kurdish People's Defense Units and their weapons are also out Manbij and Tel Rif’at should be withdrawn.
The implementation of these measures will stabilize the situation in the area of the Syrian-Turkish border, “ he said

On October 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had reached agreement on a memorandum on the situation in Syria in the southern Russian city of Sochi.

Later, Putin informed the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, about the agreement with Erdogan. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, Assad thanked him and agreed to comply with the memorandum.

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