Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Iran on Tuesday to hold talks with Tehran's foreign minister, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic President Bashar Assad during its long war.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said after talks in Ankara that Russia would stop fighting in Ukraine only when, in the Kremlin's view, the negotiations to end the war "yield a firm, sustainable result" that would be acceptable to Russia.