KOBANI, Syria (North Press) – Residents of Kobani countryside, north Syria, intercepted, on Monday, a Russian-Turkish joint patrol, ten days after the city and its eastern countryside were subjected to Turkish bombardment.
On January 8, the Turkish shelling mainly hit the countryside of Kobani in the villages of Qaramogh, where six people from one family were injured, including a four-year-old child whose leg was amputated.
While the Russian-Turkish joint patrol was roaming villages west of Kobani, the residents threw stones at the vehicles expressing their rejection to the patrol.
The patrol, which consisted of eight Russian and Turkish military vehicles accompanied by two Russian helicopters, set out from the village of Ashma, 20 kilometers west of Kobani.
This is the 85th patrol between the two forces in the region since the signing of the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement in 2019.
It roamed the villages of Jarqli Fouqani, Jebnah and Bayada reaching to Zor Maghar, off Jarablus on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
After that, the Turkish military vehicles returned to Turkey through the gate near Ashma village, while the Russian military vehicles returned to their position near the town of Sirrin, south of Kobani.
On January 3, the Russian MP canceled a joint patrol with the Turkish forces in the western countryside of Kobani.