St Petersburg, June 20 -- Russia will continue to maintain contacts with all sides, including the US, regarding the situation between Iran and Israel, as he intends to 'stop the bloodshed', Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, Tass reported.

Bogdanov said that the number of such contacts will increase in the next few days, as per Tass.

According to Bogdanov, Russian President Vladimir Putin has lately held over a hundred meetings and talks with Arab leaders.

"I think, these days, the number of such contacts will grow, because our task is, certainly, to persuade everybody to stop the bloodshed and sit down at the negotiating table," the senior Russian diplomat explained.

"I will not guess what will happen next now bec...