Vladimir Putin's defiant foreign minister has said Russia is not squeaky clean - and not ashamed about it.
Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed and forced to flee Ukraine for their safety after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the BBC that Russia did not "invade Ukraine" but insisted they launched "a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act."
