“Air support was provided by helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-35, which covered the column of the Russian and Turkish armored vehicles at heights from 50 to 200 meters”, – said the representative of the peace Center Colonel Egor Maltsev.
According to him, patrols passed through the areas before the war oil was produced. Our and the Turkish military, it was important to make sure that in the North-East of Syria there are no illegal armed formations.
He added that the patrol was successful, and the military of the two countries agreed to continue such joint raids.
But of joint control over a strategic highway and the M4, which connects the Latakia province with a major city of the country Aleppo, because of the constant provocations of the militants had to be temporarily stopped. Security patrols on this road should provide the Turkish army. But it turns out not always. On the track there were a few bombings of military equipment, suffered by the military. Therefore, these raids on the M4 not yet carried out.
Recall that the joint patrols were organized in the framework of the Memorandum signed on 22 October last year in Sochi the presidents of Russia and Turkey.
According to the same arrangements our military police, in cooperation with the Syrian border service in the course of patrolling the Syrian-Turkish border, assist in ensuring public safety and maintaining law and order, as well as monitor compliance with the paragraphs of a Memorandum of withdrawal of the Kurdish self-defense groups and their weapons to a depth of 30 kilometers from the Syrian border with Turkey.
