Now an admiral, the French officer is NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, one of the alliance’s two most senior ...

Sergei Lavrov also warned against any NATO troops in Ukraine. Follow the latest here - and ask Michael Clarke a question for our Q&A below.

Speaking to our chief presenter Mark Austin, Sergei Markov said: "Russia is afraid that the ceasefire period would be used by NATO countries ... to secure the 67-year-old as the US leader's ...