Ukrainian farmers over the first four months of the 2017-2018 marketing year (MY, July 2017-June 2018) exported 829,100 tonnes of wheat to the Middle Eastern countries, which was 46% up year-over-year (y-o-y), according to APK-Inform agency's press service.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the Defense Ministry to start the pullout of the Russian military group from Syria, according to Russian news agency TASS.
Backers of a U.S.-Russian plan to build nuclear reactors across the Middle East bragged after the U.S. election they had backing from Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn for a project that required lifting sanctions on Russia, documents reviewed by Reuters show.
In Saudi Arabia, on his first foreign visit, Trump signed on to Riyadh's vision for the Middle East — one that is shaped first and foremost by antipathy toward Tehran, according to the article by Ishaan Tharoor published in The Washington Post.