Section: Al-Manar TV (Lebanon)
Putin: Kerch Strait Incident Planned Provocation, You Can’t Argue Against That!
Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the Kerch Strait standoff was a planned provocation by Ukraine. During a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, Putin touched upon several issues, as he voiced Moscow’s points of view over them. Kerch Strait Incident Speaking on the topic of...
Tusk ‘Sure’ EU Will Roll over Sanctions on Russia in December
EU President Donald Tusk said Friday he was “sure” the bloc will roll over its sanctions on Russia next month because of Moscow’s “aggression in Ukraine.” “The escalation in the Sea of Azov is a cause of great concern to us. Russia’s use of force against Ukrainian ships is unacceptable,” Tusk told reporters before the start of the G20...
NATO to Keep Monitoring Black Sea following Ukraine’s Kerch Strait Standoff
NATO will “continue to assess its presence in the Black Sea region”, where the alliance’s ships are carrying out routine patrols and drills, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu was quoted by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency as saying. She said that “there is already a lot of NATO in the Black Sea” and that its vessels spent 120 days in the...
Kremlin Regrets Trump Decision to Cancel Putin Talks
US President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit was regrettable, the Kremlin said. “We regret the US administration’s decision to cancel the meeting,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies. “This means that discussion of important issues on the...
NATO to meet Ukraine minister amid Azov stand-off: AFP
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US Drone Reportedly Spotted Near Russian Borders
RQ-4 Global Hawk, a strategic US Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flew for eleven hours near the Russian borders on Friday, according to the aviation website Plane Radar. After lifting off from the US airbase Sigonella in Italy, the UAV entered Ukraine’s airspace at 8:27 Moscow time (5:27 GMT) and an hour later, the drone headed to...
Russian FM: US never released satellite images related to MH17 crash in Ukraine
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Merkel to meet Putin for talks on Syria, Ukraine
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Two Ukraine soldiers killed in the east
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Germany to Push for Exemptions From US Sanctions on Russia
Senior German officials will seek exemptions from US sanctions on Russia to shield local businesses from hundreds of millions in estimated losses, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz will ask the US administration during their visit to Washington next week to waive restrictions on...
