Speaking to lawmakers in Russia's State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praises US President Donald Trump for blaming the Ukraine conflict on moves to admit Kyiv into the NATO military alliance.
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00:00President Trump, if we talk about the statements, you mentioned NATO expansion, he is the first and, so far, I think, the only one of the Western leaders who publicly and loudly said that one of the main reasons for the Ukrainian situation was the cowardly line of the previous administration in bringing Ukraine into NATO.
00:25No one of the Western leaders has ever said that, but he said it several times. This is already a signal that he understands our position.