SDF Commander-in-Chief thanks President Putin for ‘protecting the Kurdish people’

he Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander-in-Chief, Mazlum Abdi, in a video call with Russia’s military leadership, thanked President Vladimir Putin for protecting the Kurdish people after the first Russian patrol was carried out in the city of Kobani.

The SDF head on Wednesday evening spoke to Russian Defense Minister, Sergey Shoygu, and Russian Army Chief of Staff, Valery Gerasimov, to discuss Tuesday’s Sochi agreement in which President Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided on the future of northern Syria.

“I would like to thank President Putin for the efforts to protect our people and halt military operations. Military forces are being deployed to new areas,“ Abdi said in a video that was released by Russia’s state broadcaster Russia Today.

According to an SDF statement, the Kurdish leader also “expressed reservations about some terms of the agreement, which require further discussions and dialogue to align views.”

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