Russian officials caution that U.S. direct military support for Israel risks triggering wider instability across the Middle East.

In separate comments, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, was quoted as saying that the situation between Iran and Israel was now critical. Ryabkov warned the U.S.

While Moscow has talked up its partnership with Iran, the deal does not require Russia to come to Iran's military aid The distraction of global attention away from Russia's war on Ukraine. "Kyiv has been forgotten" was a headline in Moskovsky Komsomolets And if the Kremlin's offer to mediate in the conflict was accepted,