Lavrov, responding to Merz’s comments on long-range missiles for Kiev, stated bluntly: Germany is sliding down the same path that once led it to ruin.

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Commenting on Merz’s remarks, Maria Zakharova told TASS that the West’s strategic ambiguity has now been replaced by what she called “offensive irrationality.”

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Mertz's comments about supplying long-range weapons amount to nothing less than a direct provocation of further war.

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RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan stated that there is talk in Moscow: if German-supplied long-range weapons are used to strike Russian territory, Russia will have no choice but to strike Berlin.