India, July 15 -- A day after Trump threatened Russia with severe tariffs over the Ukraine war, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded on Tuesday by saying that the country was ready to cope with the new sanctions and wondered what was driving Trump to make such threats.

"We want to understand what the US President is moved by," Lavrov said while addressing a press conference at the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Foreign Ministers meeting in China.

"I have no doubt we will cope with new sanctions," he added.

Lavrov's remarks come after Donald Trump said the US could impose "secondary tariffs" as high as 100% on Russia if it does not agree to a deal to end the Ukraine war within 50 days.

"We're very, very unhappy wit...