WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The signing of the deal on ending the conflict between the United States and Iran is scheduled for Sunday, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran does not rule out that signing of the memorandum on ending the conflict with the United States will take place in the coming days, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Saturday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian defense systems and tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus ensure a counterbalance to Ukraine and NATO groupings in neighboring countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

“Unless the US offers terms that address Iran’s fundamental security concerns rather than simply demanding unilateral concessions, waiting remains a rational strategy” on Tehran’s part, political analyst and Anti-Zionist America PAC director Dr. Michael Rectenwald told Sputnik.

“All of the Ukrainian bioweapons labs are administered by the US military,” Bioweapon Truth Commission co-founder Jeff J. Brown told Sputnik, commenting on DNI Gabbard’s bombshell confirmation that everything Russia’s NBC Protection Troops have been saying about these labs is true.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of a US–Iran peace deal within the next 24 hours.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian forces are maintaining a strategic advantage and are moving forward, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.

Russian forces struck Ukrainian long-range drone storage facilities, energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Frozen Iranian assets will be released after a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran is signed, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Aerospace Forces hit two points of temporary deployment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) using FAB-3000 and FAB-1500 gliding bombs, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran, after establishing a new legal regime for the Strait of Hormuz, will use military assets to control it if necessary, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Western members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) are trying to persuade other economies in the forum not to support Russia's bid for the rotating chairmanship, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for G20 and APEC affairs Marat Berdyev told Sputnik.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the US had shot down several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allegedly launched by Iran to attack merchant vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that in a conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he expressed his strong protest over the US strikes on vessels carrying Indian sailors in the Gulf of Oman.

The memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran could be signed in the coming days, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.