WASHINGTON, August 17. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump said that he is not seeking to extend the memorandum of understanding with Iran.

"No," he replied to a journalist’s question about whether he was eager to do so.

Iran is not showing willingness to accept the United States’ terms for ending the conflict, the president added.

"They want to make a deal, but they're not going to make the kind of a deal that I feel is necessary," he told reporters.

Russian air defenses down 822 Ukrainian drones overnight

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov and Tula regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Crimea, as well as over the Azov and Black Seas

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