Units of the Russian Defense Ministry's military police are celebrating a professional holiday - 10 years since their formation. The Russian military police in Syria are marking the memorable date on combat duty without celebrations, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Fomenko, head of the military police in the republic, told TASS on Wednesday.
"The conditions of service here in Syria require maximum concentration and differ from the usual conditions of performing tasks in the homeland. A streamlined mechanism works like clockwork, each serviceman goes through a thorough selection and training before leaving for a service assignment, which ensures the subsequent worthy performance of the assigned tasks," Fomenko said.
According to him, the personnel is focused on security and protection of important objects in all provinces of the republic. The main ones are monitoring of the situation and security of roads in order to ensure the safe movement of civilians along them.
At the same time the military police units enforce the cessation of hostilities along the demilitarized zone of the Holland Heights, where the interests of the two countries, Syria and Israel, converge. During the war, the site was long held by terrorists, and now there are Russian posts, after the deployment of which the UN observer mission resumed its work.
December 1, 2021, is the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the military police of the Russian Defense Ministry. The modern structure was created to protect the life, health, rights and freedoms of military personnel, to ensure law and order, military discipline, road safety, and to protect the facilities of the armed forces. Since 2016, there has been a need to expand the functions and tasks assigned to the military police, including those performed outside the Russian Federation.
Several military police battalions were the first to arrive in Syria and were tasked with stabilizing the situation in Aleppo, Damascus and other settlements, thus guaranteeing the conditions for a return to peaceful life and ensuring the return of Syrian citizens who had left their homes.
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Based on materials from TASS