“صراعات دولية: تغطية شاملة لأحداث النزاعات والصراعات العالمية”

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,040

Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa met with a senior Ukrainian delegation led by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Monday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported. For decades under deposed President Bashar al-Assad, Syria was a close ally of Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday that the country would scrap a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range nuclear missiles because the United States had “arrogantly ignored the warnings of Russia and China” and deployed “weapons of this class” in various parts of the world. Russia’s move will kill off all that remains of the New START treaty on nuclear weapons reduction, amid fears of a new arms race.

Russian state media outlets were seemingly blocked on social media platform Telegram in several European Union countries. The channels of RIA Novosti news agency, Russia-1, Channel One Russia and NTV television, and Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspapers were not accessible across the bloc on Sunday. Neither Telegram nor EU sources have yet commented on the disruption. Moscow called the move “an act of censorship”.

Source: Al Jazeera

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