Lavrov escalates rhetoric vs Germany over drone incident, calls diplomatic closures 'real war'

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BIG | 🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️‼️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has sharply escalated Moscow’s rhetoric against Germany, accusing Chancellor Friedrich Merz of steering Europe’s largest economy toward direct confrontation with Russia and invoking the darkest chapter of German history to frame Berlin’s current security policy. Lavrov said Germany’s decision to close Russian diplomatic facilities following the Leipzig/Halle airport drone incident amounted to the beginning of a “real war.” He accused Mer