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Greece is a traditional and reliable partner of Russia in Europe, and the two countries can continue building their relations "even under the anti-Russian situation of sanctions" by the EU, Russian Ambassador to Greece Andrey Maslov said on Wednesday during a traditional annual press briefing.

Strategically, the landscape on the Libyan front is now odder than before, with the latest developments raising serious suspicions that the Turkish movement in cooperation with the “Tripoli government” of Saraj may have accelerated their MoU in order to prevent imminent developments in Libya, driven by the support that Russian mercenaries have given Khalifa Haftar’s forces in recent months, tightening the noose around Tripoli. This inevitably complicates Greece’s options…

France, Russia and the UK have called on Turkey to avoid escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean and respect international law, following its expressed intentions to start drilling off the coast of the Republic of Cyprus.