Russia: U.S. Violates Protocols by Sending Convoy to Syria

Date: 14 May 2021 - 21:43

News ID: ۹۰۱۶۱

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Russia has declared in a report that U.S. military personnel illegally staying in Syria has once again violated deconflicting protocols by failing to provide Russian military police with route details for a convoy of armored vehicles.
"In the northeastern Syrian province of Al-Hasakah, another case of violation of the deconfliction protocols by the units of the U.S. armed forces, illegally staying in Syria, was recorded,” Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria said on Thursday.
As a result, officers with Russian military police in northeastern Syria stopped the convoy of six Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP)-type armored vehicles and directed the U.S. military troops to turn around.
When asked about the reported violation, U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson Jessica McNulty told Sputnik "I don’t have anything to offer you on this.”
The U.S. military has stationed forces and equipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed at preventing oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh terrorists. Damascus says the deployment is meant to loot the country’s resources.
The U.S. dispatched truckloads of military and logistical equipment to oil-rich areas it has occupied in Hasakah as Washington tightens its control over energy reserves in the war-ravaged Arab country and systematically plunders its natural resources.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources in the town of al-Ya’rubiyah, reported that a convoy of 55 trucks, accompanied by a number of armored vehicles, crossed the al-Waleed border crossing from the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq on Thursday morning and headed toward Rmelan town, located 900 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus.
The sources pointed out that the convoy later arrived at Rmelan camp, where U.S. occupation troops as well as heavy military equipment are stationed.
The development came only two days after a convoy of 27 U.S. military vehicles loaded with wheat crops and crude oil entered the Iraqi territories after crossing al-Waleed border crossing.