Moscow: Some Peace Proposals on Ukraine Contain ‘Ideas That Could Work'

Ukrainian soldier repairs a Russian tank seized by the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region (Reuters)
Ukrainian soldier repairs a Russian tank seized by the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region (Reuters)
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Moscow: Some Peace Proposals on Ukraine Contain ‘Ideas That Could Work'

Ukrainian soldier repairs a Russian tank seized by the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region (Reuters)
Ukrainian soldier repairs a Russian tank seized by the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region (Reuters)

Peace initiatives on the Ukrainian conflict settlement proposed by various countries contain ideas that could work, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

"There are interesting ideas, which may work. There are ideas that are in sync with our approaches, and, for instance, it includes the Chinese initiative," said Zakharova.

Zakharova emphasized that the primary issue lies in the obstruction of such initiatives by Kiev.

For his part, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has rejected reports of Ukrainian successes on the front lines.

“At no point have they achieved their goals,” Putin said while peaking at an economic forum in St. Petersburg.



Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released after Death Sentence Overturned

 People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Released after Death Sentence Overturned

 People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)
People walk on the Keshavarz Boulevard in Tehran on November 26, 2024. (AFP)

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was released from prison on Dec. 1 after completing a one-year sentence for speaking out against the Iranian regime, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported early on Monday.

Salehi had been sentenced to death in April by a revolutionary court on charges linked to unrest in the country from 2022 to 2023, although Iran's Supreme Court overturned that sentence in June.

His songs eulogized months-long protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for allegedly wearing an "improper" headscarf that flouted Iran's religious dress code.

Salehi was arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of the nationwide protests.

Amini's death in September 2022 unleashed protests that posed the biggest challenge to the Iran’s clerical leaders in decades.

A United Nations fact-finding mission said in March that Amini's death was unlawful and was caused by "physical violence in the custody of state authorities". It added that Iranian women still suffer systematic discrimination.