The United States, which for the past several years has been the closest allies of the Kurds, abandoned them, leaving them at the border, forcing them to fight with the Turks, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on a statement by US Special Representative for Syria James Jeffrey, who expressed doubt that the Kurds leave the territories indicated in the agreements.
On October 9, Turkey announced the start of Operation Source of Peace in northern Syria against the Kurdistan Workers Party and the IS terrorist group banned in Turkey. Turkish aviation attacked the city of Ras al-Ain and a number of other Syrian cities on the border of the two countries on the same day. The United States and Turkey said on October 17 that they had agreed to suspend Turkey’s military operation for 120 hours and withdraw Kurdish forces from the 30-km buffer zone on the Turkish-Syrian border, which Ankara intends to control independently. The ceasefire ended at 22.00 Moscow time on Tuesday.
“The United States has been the closest allies of the Kurds in the past few years. As a result, the States abandoned the Kurds and, in fact, betrayed them. Now they prefer to leave the Kurds at the border and almost force them to fight the Turks,” Peskov said.
According to him, it is absolutely obvious that if the Kurdish formations with weapons do not withdraw, “then the Syrian border guards and the Russian military police will have to withdraw.”
“And in fact, the remaining Kurdish formations will fall under the rink of the Turkish army,” Peskov emphasized.