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Vladimir Putin is more trusted than Donald Trump "to do the right thing" for the world among Greeks, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Half of Greeks surveyed said they had confidence in the Russian President, while only 19 percent said the same of his US counterpart, according to the poll by the respected Pew Research Center.

Members of the Russian upper house have stated that the 16-year US military campaign in Afghanistan had ended in failure and reiterated a call for Washington to withdraw troops from that country.

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov has said that in the future Bulgaria is going to use its army to guard its border with Turkey, reported bTV. 

The border between the two states will be divided into five zones and will be protected by 600 armed military, Karakachanov explained.

The Swedish center-left minority government announced today that it has reached an agreement with two opposition parties to increase defense spending by a total of 8.1 billion kronor ($ 1 billion) over the next three years, Reuters reported.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal from the Attorney's Office of Republika Srpska, Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity - ruling that the state, and not the entity, owns military facilities on the Veliki Zep mountain near the town of Han Pijesak.

The Constitutional Court's ruling is final, but political leaders in Republika Srpska have vowed to ignore it.

Russia understands Turkey's stance on the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) better than the United States does, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said, while also voicing Ankara's dissatisfaction on the U.S. decision to arm the group.

Speaking to Turkey's state-run broadcaster TRT Haber on Aug. 16, Çavuşoğlu said Russia did not send any weapons to the YPG.

Russia understands Turkey's stance on the People's Protection Units (YPG) better than the United States, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Aug. 16.

Washington is arming YPG forces fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, alarming their NATO ally Turkey, who regards them as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Athens on Wednesday accused the government in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) of violating the 1995 interim agreement between the two countries after the Balkan state's consul general spoke against the backdrop of irredentist symbols and maps during an official event in Toronto.

The parliamentary speaker and the ruling majority are being urged to take action to curb the stalling tactics of the opposition VMRO DPMNE party which have been blocking parliament's work for the past month and a half.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that tension with Europe was due to European domestic politics and relations with Berlin would improve after Germany’s parliamentary election in September.