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Kremlin Says Russia is Doing All it Can to Try to De-Escalate Middle East Tensions

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Kremlin Says Russia is Doing All it Can to Try to De-Escalate Middle East Tensions

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was doing everything it could to try to facilitate attempts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East by urging restraint on all sides.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments when asked about the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Iran, Reuters said.
"Russia is maintaining contacts with all parties to this conflict. We have contacts with Tehran, and we have contacts with the Israelis and the Palestinians," Peskov told reporters.
"Russia is constantly doing everything possible to call on the parties to show restraint and to facilitate any attempts to de-escalate tensions.
"...There is still an extremely tense situation in the region and, of course, it is very important now to promote restraint in this regard."

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Report: Russia Took 196 Square Km of Ukraine Last Week

Rescuers work at a site of a private house which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 29, 2024. (Reuters)
Rescuers work at a site of a private house which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 29, 2024. (Reuters)
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Report: Russia Took 196 Square Km of Ukraine Last Week

Rescuers work at a site of a private house which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 29, 2024. (Reuters)
Rescuers work at a site of a private house which was hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine October 29, 2024. (Reuters)

Russia took 196.1 square km of Ukrainian territory over the week of Oct. 20-27, making it the swiftest weekly advance for Russian forces this year, according to the Russian media group Agentstvo which analyzed Ukrainian open source maps.

The 2-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine is entering what Russian officials say is its most dangerous phase as Russian forces advance and the West ponders how the war will end.

Russian forces, which President Vladimir Putin ordered into Ukraine in February 2022, advanced in September at their fastest rate since March 2022, according to open source data, despite Ukraine taking a part of Russia's Kursk region.

"The Russian army has not had such a rapid weekly advance since at least the beginning of this year," Agentstvo, which is considered by Russia to be a "foreign agent", said on its Telegram channel.

It said it had used raw data from Ukraine's Deep State open-source intelligence analysts to make the conclusion.

Agentstvo said that last week, the Russian army took 95 square kilometers near the town of Vuhledar and 63 square kilometers near the town of Pokrovsk. Both are in the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine.

Agentstvo said that Ukrainian defenses in the Donbas were weakened by Kyiv's decision to send troops into Russia's Kursk region as Russia did not transfer troops from Donbas to Kursk.

The advance of Moscow's forces, which control just under a fifth of Ukraine, has underlined Russia's vast numerical superiority in men and materiel as Ukraine pleads for more weapons from the Western allies that have been supporting it.

Russia controls Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, about 80% of the Donbas - a coal-and-steel zone comprising the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - and over 70% of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.