Spain's Prime Minister says Iran will not distract from support for Ukraine

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday that the crisis in the Middle East would not distract from his country's support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia.

"We cannot deny that the crisis in the Middle East is monopolising conversation and precisley for that reason, I want to say to the government of Ukraine that nothing and no one will make us forget what is happening in Ukraine," he said. "We will keep our support for the Ukrainian people with the same intensity."

-Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, writing by Aislinn Laing/Reuters