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Russian soldiers wounded in mine explosion in Kobani, Syria
2020-06-10
[NPASYRIA] A landmine went kaboom! near a Russian armored vehicle near the border gate in the village of Marj Ismail eight km east of Kobani city, injuring a number of Russian soldiers and burning about 50 hectares of agricultural land in the surrounding area on Tuesday.

The Russian armored vehicle came to the border gate to coordinate with Ottoman Turkish forces to conduct a joint patrol in the region and the number of injured is still unknown, local sources reported to North Press.

"The mine explosion caused the burning of about 50 hectares of wheat crop in the villages of Marj Ismail, Kazkan, and Kikan, east of Kobani," Izzat Assaf, a member of the fire station in Kobani, told North Press.

After Ankara's long-threatened military incursion into northeast Syria to confront the Kurdish elements of the SDF in October, a ceasefire deal was first reached between the US and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
on Oct. 17 and then another one between Russia and Turkey on Oct. 22.

The Russian-Ottoman Turkish deal involves the SDF withdrawing its forces up to 30 kilometers from the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border.

This deal also outlines joint Ottoman Turkish-Russian patrols in a 10-kilometer-wide strip of land along the border that began on Nov. 1. Since then, the two sides have carried out dozens of such operations. The first of these took place on Nov. 1 on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border between the towns of Derbasiya and Amude.

The Russian forces conduct joint patrols with Ottoman Turkish forces from time to time in the Kobani countryside. The last joint patrol took place on the 28th of last month.
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