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Russia Sent Hundreds of More Troops to Syria: Defense Ministry
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1:04Now PlayingRussia has sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria to help patrol the country's Turkey-Syria border after a deal between Moscow and Ankara, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
The ministry said on Friday about 300 military police have arrived in Syria to patrol the northeastern areas along the border with Turkey, and oversee the pull-out of Syrian Kurdish fighters from there.
Military cargo planes also airlifted 20 armoured vehicles for the mission, it added.
Russia said the additional battalion of military police dispatched to Syria comes from Chechnya, a Russian region that saw two devastating separatist wars in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, before Moscow regained control.
Troops from Chechnya, known for their fierce warrior spirit, have regularly been sent to Syria on rotation bases in recent years.
The Defence Ministry said military police on Friday patrolled a new route along the border, covering more than 200 kilometres (124 miles) in a round trip between the city of Kamishli and the Matala settlement.
The Russian military did not release the total number of its contingent in Syria, and it did not say how many troops will be involved in the patrol mission on the Turkish border.
Under the Moscow-Ankara deal, Turkey is to keep sole control of a large section in the center of the border area, most of which was captured in its invasion this month, aimed at driving the US-allied Kurdish forces out of a "safe zone" along the border.
Syrian government and Russian military police are to control the rest of the 440-kilometre (273-mile) Syria-Turkey border.
They are to ensure that Syrian Kurdish fighters, who were US allies in the fight against the Islamic State group and who freed most of the region of Islamic State, withdraw to 30 kilometres (19 miles) away from the frontier.
After that, Russia and Turkey are to begin joint patrols along a narrower strip directly on the Turkish-Syrian border.
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