OREANDA-NEWS. RIA Novosti news agency, citing a message from the Russian Ministry of Defense, reported that an explosive device went off on the way of an armored carrier of the Russian military police in Syria.

“The armored carrier was damaged. Three Russian servicemen who were in the armored carrier sustained slight injuries and bruises,” the report says. The representative of military agency noted that there was no threat to the lives of servicemen.

The incident occurred near ​​the city of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani), where military policemen reconnoitered a route of joint patrol with Turkish servicemen.

There is no information about who is responsible for this attack.

In October, the Presidents of Turkey and Russia Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin held negotiations and signed a memorandum. Ankara agreed to stop holding military operation in Syria, which was started at the beginning of the month, and to let the Kurdish forces that were supposed to leave the border zone. The Russian side agreed to send military police to the territory near the Syrian-Turkish border for patrolling.

On November 18, a joint convoy of Russian and Turkish military was met by a group of teenagers who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at carriers. No one was hurt in the incident. The armored carrier went around a group of young people and drove on – this decision was made by the head of convoy.

On November 30, the Russian military announced that they had begun patrolling on a new route near Ayn al-Arab. Before the passage of the military police, the road was examined by sappers and scouts who moved in armored vehicles Tigr.