The Foreign Ministry has expressed its sympathy to the families of the victims of the attack on the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, in which scores of people were killed in a terrorist attack claimed by Islamic State.
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The European Union on Monday said the Russian election has taken place in a highly restricted environment “exacerbated by Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine”.
“So a Russian ballistic missile nearly killed the Greek prime minister as he was visiting Odesa with Zelensky today. The Greek prime minister. The leader of the NATO and EU member with the largest sympathies for Russia,” Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of The Wall Street journal and author, commented on X on the day of the attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin must have been “sick” to have launched a missile strike on the port city of Odesa last week when Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in the city, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
As more time goes by, it is becoming increasingly clear that Moscow knew that at the time of the missile strike on the port of Odesa on Wednesday that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were standing just a few hundred meters away.
The visit of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Ukraine on Wednesday had all the makings of a Hollywood thriller, as an explosion from a Russian attack on Odesa, probably with missiles, occurred less than 200 meters from where he stood with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed the explosion in Ukraine’s Odesa on Wednesday as a precision military hit. The attack took place approximately 500 to 800 meters away from visiting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ motorcade.
Turkey’s exports to Russia in February fell 33% year on year to $670 million, trade ministry data showed on Saturday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday discussed the Middle East, North Africa and the Black Sea region at a conference in the Turkish city of Antalya, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Vladimir Putin conveyed his congratulations to the Turkish president on his 70th birthday via telephone earlier this week.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Turkey on Friday and Saturday, his spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, as the two countries prepare a visit to Turkey by President Vladimir Putin.
French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron welcomed his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Monday at the Elysee Palace in the French capital for a short-notice working meeting on the war in Ukraine.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday discussed “the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza” and steps that could be taken on it at the G20 in Rio de Janeiro, a Turkish diplomatic source said.
The fact that Alexei Navalny’s death was easily foretold does not make it less heroic nor less sad. It does not reduce the value of his sacrifice, nor the importance of the warning that it sends to the Russians and the rest of the world – Vladimir Putin will act in this way until he is forced to stop.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has expressed her shock at the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “Shocked by the death of Alexei Navalny, a prominent human rights activist dedicated to the fight for freedom and democracy,” Sakellaropoulou said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Alexei Navalny’s “courage will not be forgotten,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, reacting to the death of the Russian opposition leader in a Siberian prison.
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