Russian military police set up additional checkpoint in Golan Heights

MOSCOW

The Russian military police have set up an additional checkpoint in the Golan Heights area in order to monitor the disengagement line separating Israeli and Syrian forces, an official said Thursday.

Military police will monitor the situation on the Bravo disengagement line, Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said at a press briefing in Damascus.

Russia has been warning since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip last October that the conflict may spread further in the region, including to countries that have territorial disputes with Israel.

Kulit said a pair of F-16 fighter jets and a pair of А-10 Thunderbolt attack bombers of the US-led international anti-terrorist coalition violated Syrian airspace in the vicinity of Al-Tanf air base four times during the day.

In addition, nine violations involving drones were recorded over the past day, he noted.

Al-Tanf is a military base in an American occupied part of Homs Governorate in Syria. It is located 24 kilometers (14.9 miles) west of the al-Walid border crossing in the Syrian Desert.