Putin in close contact with Gulf leaders to facilitate de-escalation: Kremlin

Key Highlights

• “Putin will certainly make every effort to facilitate at least a minor easing of tensions.
• In this regard, we discussed with virtually all of our interlocutors yesterday,” the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
• “Taking advantage of the dialogue we maintain with the Iranian leadership, (President) Putin will convey his deep concern regarding the strikes on their infrastructure to our colleagues in Iran,” he added.
• According to the Kremlin, Putin spoke by telephone with leaders of Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
• In his telephonic conversation with Crown Prince and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, Putin discussed the escalating situation in the region as a result of the American-Israeli armed aggression against Iran.