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Old 05-14-2021, 07:51 AM
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Arrow Per - Russian Troops Block U.S. Military Convoy in Syria

Per - Russian Troops Block U.S. Military Convoy in Syria
By: The Moscow Times - 05-14-21
Re: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/...n-syria-a73890

Russian troops have blocked and turned around a U.S. military convoy in northeast Syria, the Russian military said Thursday, accusing it of violating deconfliction arrangements in the country.

The Russian Defense Ministry’s Syria reconciliation center said six American MRAP-type armored vehicles drove “along an uncoordinated route and without prior notice” in the Kurdish-held Syrian province of Hasakah.

“A Russian military police patrol stopped the convoy and turned it in the opposite direction,” counter admiral Alexander Karpov, the reconciliation center’s deputy head, said in a statement.

The U.S. Defense Department declined to comment on the confrontation, with spokeswoman Jessica McNulty telling Russian state-run media it “has nothing to give you on the request.”

The statement followed a Pentagon inspector general report to U.S. Congress accusing the Russian military of violating the northeastern Syria deconfliction processes this year.

The report, cited by Newsweek last week, accused Russia of adding “an extra vehicle to pre-arranged patrols” and moving military transport and fighter aircraft into the country withot prior notice.

With greater numbers and closer proximity to the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, the document said Russia “seeks to harass and constrain U.S. forces with the ultimate goal of compelling U.S. forces to withdraw from northeastern Syria.”

Russia countered by accusing the U.S. of “illegally” deploying in Syria, saying its presence there was requested by the Syrian regime.

“So the U.S. does not have any right to criticize legitimate actions of the Russian Armed Forces,” the Russian Embassy in Washington tweeted on May 6.

The Russian military, which has been providing support to Damascus since 2015 in its decade-long civil war, has also announced the expansion of its naval and military bases in Syria.

The U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition was deployed in Syria that same year, which has led to multiple tense standoffs with Russian troops in recent years.

Islamic State is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

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Personal note: That's got to be B.S. but what do I know!? We haven't heard the US side of that so call event?
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