The assassination of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko does not undermine either the sides' obligations within the Minsk agreements or the need to hold the Normandy Four meetings, a spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran on Friday to attend the summit of the guarantor states of the Astana process, the Russian leader is expected to hold bilateral meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts during the visit, the Kremlin press service said on Monday.

Former French President Francois Hollande lacks objectivity and sincerity in some of his descriptions of the Normandy Four summit on Ukraine, particularly in relation to the venue and conditions provided to the state leaders, in his book "Lessons of Power," Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said on Monday.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that reports on Iran allegedly transferring its ballistic missiles to Tehran-backed Shiite groups in Iraq were "false and ridiculous.

Turkey has listed the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham armed Islamist group (formerly the Nusra Front, a terrorist group outlawed in Russia) as a terrorist organization, according to a decree signed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was killed in a blast, which the authorities of the breakaway region, as well as Russia, largely considered to be a terrorist attack orchestrated by the Ukrainian authorities.