After residents’ protest, Russian military police leave a village in Derik countryside

Reported by  Soulnar muhamad from Derek

DERIK, Syria (North Press) – A Russian military police patrol vacated its site in Qasr al-Deeb village in the northern and eastern Derik countryside, on Thursday, hours after residents protested against the stationing of the Russian forces in their village and demanding them to leave.

A Russian  patrol consisting of  eight military vehicles arrived on Wednesday afternoon at Qasr al- Deeb village after its withdrawal from the village of Derona Agi, in the countryside of Girke Lege (Mabada) town.

Derona Agi village, where the Russian forces were stationed for a day, witnessed  residents' refusal of the aid provided to them by Russians, and they also expressed their refusal to the presence of those forces.

Naeema Youssef, a local from the village of Qasr al-Deeb, told North Press earlier that they do not accept the presence of Russian forces in the village and that they expelled them the first time they came. She added that the U.S. troops told them they would not allow the Russian military police come again, but they are gone and the Russian forces have come again .

The Russian forces were stationed early June in Qasr al-Deeb outskirt,  6 kilometer  north of Derik, but left a day after similar protests.