Section: Tasnim News Agency (Iran)
Kiev Regularly Stages Armed Provocations in Donbass: Russian Foreign Minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies’ staff is regularly staging armed provocations on the contact line in Donbass so that not to implement the political portion of Minsk agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday in an interview with Mir TV Channel. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Moscow Calls on Kiev to Assess UN Court’s Decision on Provisional Measures against Russia
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Ukrainian officials, who welcome the decision taken by the UN International Court of Justice on Kiev’s call to impose provisional measures against Russia, should thoroughly assess the document issued by the Court, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Russia Seeks Arrest of Former Ukraine Prime Minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia has sent a request to the international police agency Interpol for the arrest and extradition of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, claiming he killed Russian soldiers in Chechnya in the 1990s. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Merkel, Putin to Discuss G20, Syria, Ukraine in Sochi on Tuesday
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi next Tuesday to prepare the upcoming G20 summit in July and discuss geopolitical conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, a German government spokesman said on Friday. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Ukraine Cuts Power Supply to Separatist Region, Blaming Unpaid Debts
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ukraine’s national power company said on Tuesday it had cut electricity to parts of an eastern region controlled by separatists because they had run up large debts. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Eleven Missing after Ship Sinks Off Crimean Coast: Officials
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A cargo ship heading from Russia to Turkey sunk off the coast of Crimea early Wednesday morning and 11 of the crew are missing, Crimea’s emergency situations ministry said. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The German government says the leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France have renewed their commitment to implementing a faltering peace deal for eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Mogherini to Make First Trip to Russia
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini will make her first official visit to Russia this month, with relations strained to breaking point by the Ukraine conflict and the war in Syria. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
EU Top Court Upholds Sanctions against Russia’s Rosneft
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Europe’s top court Tuesday upheld European Union sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, including on its largest oil group Rosneft, in a ruling that asserts the court’s jurisdiction over the bloc’s foreign policy. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Trump to Ask Merkel for Advice on Putin, Ukraine: US Officials
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – President Donald Trump will ask Chancellor Angela Merkel for advice on how to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, US officials said on Friday, as the US and German leaders meet next week after sometimes pointed disagreements in recent months. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
