Putin, Pezeshkian sign strategic Russia-Iran partnership agreement in Moscow ・Ukraine strikes Russian S-400 radar equipment in Belgorod Oblast, military claims ・Biden administration secretly funded Ukraine's drone industry,

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a broad cooperation pact Friday as their countries deepened their partnership in the face of stinging Western sanctions.

Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine.

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Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has stressed that the investigation into the downing of Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 by Iran continues, though Tehran reaffirms its status as a murderer, assisting Russia in its war against Ukraine.

TEL AVIV, January 19. /TASS/. The agreement on the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of Israeli hostages kept there is expected to come into force at 08:30 a.m. local time (06:30 a.m. GMT). Israeli authorities are preparing to receive the first group of hostages held by Palestinian radicals for more than a year.

DUBAI, January 18. /TASS/. Two judges of the Iranian Supreme Court in charge of cases on terrorism and espionage have been shot and killed in downtown Tehran, the Court’s press service said.

The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.