The statement came a day after the Indian embassy in Iran said that it had "strongly taken up this matter with Iranian authorities" and requested that the missing Indians be "urgently traced and their safety ensured".
Moscow's confidence is also fuelled by the belief that, in Ukraine, it holds the initiative on the battlefield.Back in 2023 Donald Trump had promised that, if he won the presidency, "we will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled… I'll get them both. I know Zelensky, I know Putin. It'll be done within 24 hours, you watch".
Trump has been in the Oval Office for more than four months now, but the "horrible war" goes on.On rare occasions, he has publicly rebuked the Kremlin and threatened further sanctions. Last month he said: "…there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through 'Banking' or 'Secondary Sanctions?'"But there's been no follow-through. The US president appears reluctant to ratchet up the pressure on the Kremlin, instead signalling to Moscow that he's keen to reboot US-Russia relations.
Following the presidents' telephone conversation, Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, who'd sat in on the call, told journalists: "Trump spoke rather emotionally about the prospects for [bilateral] relations. Trump sees Russia as one of America's most important partners in trade and economic matters."President Trump seems determined to push on with his rapprochement with Russia, whatever happens on Ukraine.
And Moscow senses that.
"President Trump does not link continued US-Russia dialogue to the Ukraine peace process," was a headline in the Russian government paper Rossiyskaya Gazeta this week.Mr Fusek Peters started concentrating on his own garden wildlife after a diagnosis of bowel cancer in 2018,
to "make time stop" to get shots of birds and butterflies taking off and in mid flight.Using his kitchen as a hide, he has also taken
- showing the effect of diffraction on their wings, giving a rainbow effect."This winter I got a woodpecker and a nuthatch" he said, adding the images were "extraordinary".