"Literally this morning, we received a memorandum approved by our American colleagues on preventing air incidents in the Syrian Arab Republic," the spokesman said.
"We undoubtedly consider the signing of such a document as an important step of practical significance," the spokesman said.
Head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operations Department Col.-Gen. Andrei Kartapolov said last Friday that the Russian and US military had agreed all technical issues on safe flights over Syria.
Before that, the Russian and US military held three video conferences on the preparation of the relevant memorandum....http://tass.ru/en/defense/830353
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Russia's defense ministry said Tuesday it had received a memorandum from the U.S. military on preventing mid-air incidents over Syria, where Russian and U.S. air forces are flying separate missions...
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Russia and the US have signed a deal that they hope will avoid clashes between their air forces in the skies over Syria, officials from both countries said...
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Last week, the US said both countries' planes "entered the same battle space" and came within miles of each other.
Officials had been seeking an agreement since late September.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the text of the deal would remain secret at Moscow's request, but that it laid out means for both sides to communicate and establish a hotline on the ground.
The two countries would not, however, share intelligence on their targets, he said.....BBC