Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia's general staff, attends a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Jan 23, 2018. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP)

MOSCOW - Russia blamed the United States for a recent collision between Russian and US military vehicles in Syria.

In violation of existing agreements, US military personnel attempted to block the Russian convoy, which "took the necessary measures to prevent an incident and to keep fulfilling its task," Gerasimov said

On Wednesday, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley that a day before Russia notified the command of the US-led coalition in advance of the passage of the Russian military police convoy in northeast Syria, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.

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In violation of existing agreements, US military personnel attempted to block the Russian convoy, which "took the necessary measures to prevent an incident and to keep fulfilling its task," Gerasimov said.

According to a draft statement by US Central Command, Russian vehicles "unsafely" pursued US forces in Syria on Tuesday and a Russian vehicle intentionally rammed a coalition vehicle, leading to four US troops being injured.

Videos of the encounter on Twitter showed that US and Russian vehicles were chasing and attempting to block each other's paths, with Russian helicopters overhead.

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