NALCHIK (Sputnik) — The military police battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry, sent in February this year from Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia to Syria to ensure the safety of the Russian air group and the reconciliation center, will return home on May 10, the press service of the Ingushetian leader said Thursday citing the chief of the Main Directorate of Russia's Military Police, Vladimir Ivanovsky.
"On Thursday, at a meeting with the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Ivanovsky said that on May 10, the battalion of military police from Ingushetia, sent to Syria to maintain the established order, will leave the place of deployment and return to the republic," the statement said.
Yevkurov said that a red carpet welcome would be organized on the occasion of the battalion's return and expressed readiness to continue cooperation with the Russian Defense Ministry, noting that the Ingush servicemen were provided with everything for a successful peace-keeping mission.
A military police battalion from Ingushetia was the second Russian military police unit sent to Syria on a peacekeeping mission. In December 2016, a military police battalion was sent to the city of Aleppo to maintain order in the militant-free territory.
A Russian military police battalion was deployed in Syria to ensure security of Russian advisers, a demining squad and medics as well as to help Syrian authorities to maintain order.
