MOSCOW
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that Russia regularly conveys to the US signals of the inadmissibility of sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
"Within the framework of our existing contacts, we regularly convey to American representatives signals about the inadmissibility of transferring intelligence data to the Kyiv regime," Zakharova said at a media briefing in Moscow. "I am forced to state that in response to our demarches, the American side, as a rule, gets off with general phrases or remains completely silent."
Turning to the Middle East war, she said it is not developing according to the original concept.
It is possible that the next "round" of calls for negotiations is aimed at creating "more favorable" conditions for regrouping forces and adjusting military plans, she said.
"Our fundamental position has not changed. We proceed from the understanding that negotiations are the only reasonable way out of the most severe crisis into which the US-Israeli tandem has plunged the Middle East region, and, in fact, the entire world," she said.
Zakharova said the war shows a tendency toward geographic expansion and escalation, which risks, among other things, a nuclear catastrophe.
Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov received Iranian Ambassador Kazem Jalali to exchange views on issues "related to the aggression of the US and Israel against Iran."
Zakharova strongly criticized Austrian authorities for revoking the accreditation of the head of Russian state news agency Tass bureau in Vienna, Maxim Cherevik.
"We regard these actions as deliberate and politically motivated pressure on Russian journalists, as well as a gross violation of Austria's international obligations," she stressed.
She added that the move is nothing more than a "purge" of the information space from alternative points of view, carried out using methods of political censorship.