In accordance with the appeal of the Syrian authorities, the command of the Russian Khmeimim air base organized round-the-clock patrolling of the seaport and the adjacent territory of the city of Latakia by military police units using Patrol and Tiger armored vehicles. This was reported to Izvestiya on Friday, February 11, by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Members of the military police of the Russian Armed Forces regularly train at the Khmeimim airbase. It is necessary to shoot at targets located at a distance of 600 m. Military exercises at the base almost never stop.
“In order to successfully fulfill the tasks assigned to us, we need to constantly improve our level and train. At the training grounds, systematic classes are held with military personnel in shooting from small arms, machine guns and pistols, as well as weapons of the BTR-82A. Algorithms of action against the attack of a conditional enemy on significant objects are being worked out. I would like to note that every serviceman of the military police of the Russian Federation in the Syrian Arab Republic has a high level of training, ”says Khmeimim Ilnar Akhatov, deputy military commandant of the Russian air base.
The military police have been performing combat missions in Syria continuously since 2015. She guards the Khmeimim air base, the base of the Russian military in Tartus. Columns of armored vehicles under the flags of the Russian Federation patrol the most important highways of the country. It was thanks to the protection of the military police that it was possible to unblock the roads near Idlib, Qamishli, Deir ez-Zor.
Police patrols provide security at the most important infrastructure in Syria, including the port of Latakia, the most important in Syria. The Syrian authorities asked the Russian Federation to protect the port from a possible terrorist threat. In Damascus, they fear that the militants may change tactics and move on to sabotage and terrorist attacks after they were defeated in an open confrontation.
“In accordance with the appeal of the Syrian authorities, the command of the Russian Khmeimim air base organized round-the-clock patrolling of the seaport and the adjacent territory of the city of Latakia by military police units using Patrol and Tiger armored vehicles. Our presence at such a significant facility excludes the possibility of provocations by illegal armed groups,” said the military commandant of the Russian Khmeimim airbase Maxim Shipilov.
Drones help assess the situation in the port from the air. The duty is conducted around the clock, without interruptions.
Earlier, on February 10, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that, with the mediation of officers of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in the Syrian province of Rif Damascus, the process of resolving the status of residents and deserters continues.
In the Al-Maddamiya district, a reconciliation point was organized right in the building of the local school. Rooms have been set up in several classrooms where former deserters, draft dodgers, militants and their accomplices are tested before being officially pardoned.
Source: IZ
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