"The American side refuses to provide security guarantees for the movement of humanitarian columns within the 55-kilometer zone around the American base in Et-Tanf," RIA Novosti quotes Kupchishin.

March 3, the representative of the US coalition to combat the IG * Colonel of the US Army Shawn Ryan said that its representatives did not prevent the removal of refugees from the Syrian camp "Al-Rukban."

On March 2, Lieutenant-General Sergei Solomatin, head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, said that the American side had refused to allow transport convoys to the territory of the Al-Tanf zone to transport refugees from the Er Rukban camp.

* “Islamic State” (IG) - the organization is recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.