MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has condemned the US strikes on Iraq and Syria, and requested a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the issue. The US has “once again demonstrated its aggressive essence and disregard for international law,” said Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson. According to her, the attack led to the de...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has strongly condemned the airstrikes by the US and UK on Yemen’s Houthis. Russia’s concerns, voiced during discussion earlier this week of a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution against Houthi attacks on ships, that the document will be “misinterpreted” and used to justify “illegal act...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has called the killings of journalists covering the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip “shocking,” and described the reaction by some international organizations as “particularly depressing.” “This is a mass death, this is not ‘killing,’ these are not ‘tragic cases,R...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will decide on the terms of the presence of its peacekeepers in Karabakh together with Baku, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. “The timing and other issues of the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the region will be determined jointly with our colleagues … If we are talking about ...
Moscow, Russia – – AFP Russia has urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to “end bloodshed” and pursue peace talks, after Baku launched “anti-terror operations” in the disputed Armenian-majority region of Nagorno-Karabakh. “The Russian side urges an end to the bloodshed… and a return to a peaceful settleme...
