Alexander Sutnichenko, an adviser to the Russian embassy in Ankara, said his country did not have good relations with the Syrian Kurdish (YPG) and denied that the group's political branch had a representative office in Moscow.
Sutnichenko called the YPG "separatist" in a statement, saying his country did not have good relations with the group and that Moscow supported Syria's territorial integrity.
Meanwhile, the YPG and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have always emphasized that their goal is not to secede from Syria, and that they want a local self-government within a unified and democratic Syria.
Sutnichenko said that the opening of a representative office of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), an umbrella group that includes the YPG, in Moscow was a show for television channels and that there was no such office.
In 2016, news released that the PYD had opened a representative office in Moscow, and even Turkish media claimed that Falkanaz Oce, a representative of the People's Democratic Party (PYD) in the Turkish parliament, had attended the opening ceremony.
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