Russia deploys additional military police units to an area in northern Syria

Russia announced that it had dispatched more military police to an area in northern Syria that witnessed clashes between Turkish-backed militants and Kurdish forces near a strategic highway where Russian and Turkish forces conduct security patrols.

This comes ahead of talks to be held in southern Russia on Tuesday between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.

The Syrian dossier will be among the issues to be discussed by the two ministers, as Moscow and Ankara support two parties in conflict in Syria.

Fighting broke out between Turkish-backed fighters and Kurdish forces near Ain Issa in northern Syria this month. Ain Issa is located on the M4 motorway that connects the main Syrian cities, and in an area where Russian and Turkish patrols are usually carried out.

And the Russian Defense Ministry announced in a statement that it had sent more military police to the region on Sunday.

“We note the uncomfortable situation in the Ain Issa region,” the statement said.

He added: “Earlier during negotiations with the Turkish side, we reached agreements to deploy joint Russian-Syrian monitoring sites. Additional units of Russian military police arrived in Ain Issa today (Sunday) to reinforce efforts to stabilize the situation. .

Moscow, whose plane also patrols the region, called on the two sides to stop the mutual bombardment and reduce the escalation. It indicated that it had not detected any bombardment by Turkish-backed forces during the past 24 hours.