Russia is willing to work with Donald Trump's incoming administration to improve relations if the U.S. has serious intentions to do so but it is up to Washington to make the first move, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

Officials and political pundits in Moscow have voiced their support for President-elect Donald Trump's recent pitch to buy Greenland, posted to Truth Social.

Russia is willing to work with Donald Trump's incoming administration to improve relations if the US has serious intentions to do so but it is up to Washington to make the first move, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

"The president (Donald Trump – ed.) is very, very consistent in what he wants, which is to stop the killing and bring peace to the region," he said. “That is his top international priority, but he wants a peace that is just.

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he asked the U.S. Defense Department to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine after condemning Russia's Christmas Day attack against some of Ukraine's cities and its energy system.

The treaty will "formalize the parties' commitment to close defense cooperation," Russia's foreign minister said in late October.

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President-elect Donald Trump has floated the idea of ice hockey pro Wayne Gretzky running to be the leader of Canada in the future. The incoming Republican president said that Gretzky would make an excellent prime minister,

Russian troops are likely seeking to seize a bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnipro River or one of its islands in order to transfer firepower there, Vladyslav Voloshyn, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian military's Southern Command,