Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militant group did not hold any talks or broker any agreements with Damascus regarding the deployment of government troops in Syria's Afrin District, Rojhat Roj, the YPG troop commander, told Sputnik on Friday.
On Thursday, sources familiar with the situation told Sputnik and Mayadeen that the Kurds and the Syrian government had reached an agreement to deploy Syrian troops in Afrin in the coming days.
"The information that Syrian government troops are going to enter Afrin does not correspond with reality. We have not held any talks with Damascus or reached any agreements," Roj said.
However, the opposition Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Russians and Kurdish forces hold a meeting on February 15 to reach an agreement on the deployment of border guards and the civil police of the Syrian forces in Afrin.
On January 25, Kurdish authorities in Syria's Afrin district called for the Syrian government to send troops to help defend themselves from the Turkish assault, turning for help to the very government from which they have sought autonomy.
The YPG commander refused to comment on the statement of US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who on Thursday, during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Nurettin Canikli in Brussels, said that the YPG might be separated from Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and used in the fight against the latter.
