Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on Tuesday that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s statements on the authorization of Ukrainian attacks on Russia with European long-range weapons suggest that the decision to allow such attacks was made a long time ago.
Merz said a day earlier that there are no longer any range restrictions for weapons supplied to Ukraine by Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States.
Lavrov assessed that these statements indicate the type of people who came to power in leading European countries and suggested that the decision to allow a long-range strike against Russia was made some time ago, but was kept secret.
Asked about US President Donald Trump’s statements about Russia, Lavrov said the president is showing emotion because he sees European politicians sabotaging his efforts for peace in Ukraine.
On Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirmed that Ukraine’s main allies, including Germany, would lift a limit on the range of weapons sent to Kiev.
“This means that Ukraine, for example, can now defend itself by attacking military positions in Russia (…) which it did not do for a while, with a few earlier exceptions. Now it can,” said the conservative German chancellor.
The Kremlin assessed Merz’s statement about the decision of a number of European countries to lift restrictions on Kiev’s range of missile attacks on Russian territory as “very dangerous” and “contrary to our aspirations to reach a political solution.”
