MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday that in a phone call his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba called for "stopping the war" and Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov noted that this is what Russia is doing.

"During the talks, Mr. Minister informed about his telephone call with the Ukrainian foreign minister and conveyed Mr. [Dmitry] Kuleba’s call for stopping the war as soon as possible. I can assure you that we are doing it," Lavrov said after talks with his Iranian counterpart.

Russia "is stopping the war the Kiev regime has been conducting against Donbass’ population for at least eight years," he stressed. "Again, we see the real face of Kiev’s radicals who attacked central Donetsk from a Tochka-U system with a cluster bomb yesterday, killing 20 and wounding much more civilians."

The Russian foreign minister noted that the West is hushing up the truth about the actions of Ukrainian radicals and continues to fan hysteria by spreading outright fakes. Lavrov also said he had shared with the Iranian counterpart materials citing facts that demonstrate the real face of the Ukrainian authorities, their official positions and attitudes to their commitments under the UN Charter, UN and OSCE resolutions, and "the Minsk agreements they signed and ruined under the passive eye of Western colleagues."

"Talks are now continued to ensure Ukraine’s neutral status in the context of security guarantees to all participants in the process, in the context of Ukraine’s demilitarization so that no threats to Russia were never coming from its territory, in the context of stopping the policy of Nazification, which is committed to paper in a range of legislative acts, and annulling all discriminative restrictions imposed on the Russian language, education, Russian culture, Russian mass media," he added.

The Iranian top diplomat said after the talks that Kuleba had asked him to tell Lavrov that Ukraine wants political settlement of the conflict. "The talks that my counterpart Mr. Lavrov had with the Ukrainian foreign minister began in Antalya and continue in the videoconference format," he said. "Yesterday in the evening, I had a very long conversation with the Ukrainian foreign minister. And he asked me to convey to Mr. Lavrov a message that Ukraine stands for focusing on political settlement.".