NNA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday that Moscow needed "long-term security guarantees" that would halt NATO's eastward expansion, Moscow said.

Lavrov warned Washington against "drawing Ukraine into the geopolitical games of the United States" and said Russia needed "long-term security guarantees on our western borders, which should be viewed as an imperative requirement," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.—AFP

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