According to SANA, Assad noted that “the Russian-Turkish agreement on northern Syria is temporary and restrains Turkey’s ambitions to do more harm and blocks the way for Americans.”
He called this agreement a positive step.
On October 22, following the meeting in Sochi of the Presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an agreement was reached on the entry of the Syrian military and Russian military police into the zone outside the Turkish military operation "Source of Peace" on Syrian territory.