Since the beginning of the year, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has had two telephone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Konstantin Yeliseyev, as stated in an interview with Hromadske.

At the same time, he noted that these conversations were strictly coordinated with Ukraine's partners in the Normandy format - Germany and France.

Yeliseyev said that Poroshenko's conversations with Putin …

In an interview with the Chinese Phoenix News television channel, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called Russia the only force that is effectively fighting against the Islamic State.

 According to Assad, while U.S. President Donald Trump has called the fight with the so-called Islamic State one of his political priorities, Damascus has not seen any concrete actions to combat jihadists from the US.

"The only serious side in this respect is Russia, which is effectively fighting ISIS in …

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN, Volodymyr Yelchenko, expressed his opinion on why the US has not reached any deals with Russia. He stated in his interview to Apostrophe news web site that American officials have changed their opinion of “Russia’s behavior”.

“And when the new American officials, who started to deal with the Russian issue, read information in the media which they had not seen until now, and they saw Russia’s behavior before and now, many of them, I think, changed their opinion …