The president of Russia said on Friday the United States and its NATO allies have ignored Moscow’s security demands, while a top Kremlin official ruled out war, saying Russia does not want the situation near Ukraine to escalate. “There won’t be a war as far as it depends on the Russian Federation, we don’t want a war,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during an interview with local radio stations. “But we won’t let our interests be rudely trampled on and ignored.” During a call on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his first comment since the United States and NATO sent written responses to a raft of Moscow’s security proposals that the West has failed to consider key conditions that include a ban on Ukraine joining NATO, halting further NATO expansion, stopping the deployment of alliance weapons near Russian borders, as well as rolling back …