Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Monday, October 16, 2023
From the Liveblog of
Monday, October 16, 2023
Putin to speak today with Netanyahu, PA’s Abbas, Sissi; has talked with Assad, Raisi
File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemtov/Pool/AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be speaking later today to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, an aide says.
Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov is also quoted by Russian agencies as saying that Putin has already spoken to his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi earlier today.
