Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Nato's efforts to turn Ukraine into a strategic military foothold left Moscow with no choice but to launch its 2022 military operation

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov listed Moscow's demands for a peace deal that would end its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in an interview with the Hungarian publication Magyar Nemzet. Lavrov said an end to the security threat posed to Russia by NATO's expansion,

"A sustainable settlement is not possible without eliminating the root causes of the conflict," the senior Kremlin figure said.

"We're going to send some more weapons – we have to. They have to be able to defend themselves," Trump said of Ukraine July 7.

"At President Trump's direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secur