MOSCOW—Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Russian forces would respond to the delivery of longer-range Western weapons to Kyiv by trying to push Ukrainian forces further away from its borders to create a safe buffer zone.
Lavrov told state TV that everybody wanted the conflict in Ukraine—which Moscow calls a “special military operation”—to end, but that the West’s support for Kyiv was playing an important role in how Russia approached the campaign.
