US-Russia Relations

The Russian ambassador to Iran has rejected the US efforts to alter Moscow’s stances towards Tehran, stressing that strengthening relations with Iran is his country’s main foreign policy priority.

Moscow says it is halting an agreement with Washington aimed at avoiding mid-air collisions during their military missions in the Syrian airspace after US launched a missile attack against a Syrian army airbase.

President Vladimir Putin believes a US missile attack on a Syrian airbase near Homs has violated international law and seriously hurt Russia-US relations, the Kremlin says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin “regards the strikes as aggression against a sovereign nation,” his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, noting that the president believes the strikes were carried out “in violation of international law, and also under an invented pretext.”

A political analyst says even the election of Donald Trump as the US president cannot bring about reconciliation between Washington and Moscow.

In his talks with US President, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has stressed the importance of Trump’s dialogue with Russian President Putin in resolving global challenges such as Syria, Iran, and Ukraine.