Russian Defense Ministry Confirms Turkish Shelling of Syrian City of Tal Abyad

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MOSCOW-Russia has received information of an assault on the northern Syrian town of Tal Abyad from Turkish territory, the head of the ceasefire monitoring center at the Russian Hmeymim airbase in Lattakia said Sunday, according o Sputnik News.

“The Russian center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria received late February 27 information about the attack from Turkey on the Syrian city of Tal Abyad,” Lt. Gen. Sergei Kuralenko told reporters. 

Russia’s ceasefire monitoring center has asked its US counterpart in Amman, Jordan, to explain the shelling.

Kuralenko said the assault was carried out by armed units backed by heavy artillery.

“The information was later checked and confirmed through several channels, including the Syrian Democratic Forces,” he specified.

 

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