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Kurdish provocateurs have tried to burn a Typhoon MRAP vehicle of the Russian Military Police and a Kirpi MRAP vehicle of the Turkish Army in northern Syria. The incident happened during a joint Russian-Turkish patrol, which was conducted in the framework of the safe zone agreement reached in the area.
Protesters set ablaze a Turkish military vehicle during a joint military patrol of the Turkish army and Russian police in the vicinity of the city of Ain Arab on the Syrian border pic.twitter.com/bww8N5cnzX
— Sprinter Express (@SprinterExpres0) November 18, 2019
Russian and Turkish forces once again showed an amazing restraint and did not use force against the Kurdish radicals. Nonetheless, a Turkish vehicle rammed one of the cars involved in the provocations.
Such actions of Kurdish radicals affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces pose a serious threat to the shaky stability in the region. If their actions lead to casualties among Russian or Turkish personnel, they will easily find themselves in the situation when the Turkish Army will have to resume its military operation in the area and Moscow will not hurry up to rescue them once again.
