'Stubborn stupidity': Putin envoy lashes out at Germany's Merz

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2025-12-05

Moscow (dpa) - Russia has responded with mockery to an alleged comment by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to European counterparts expressing mistrust at the US envoys negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. "Dear Merz, you are not even in the game," Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X. "You disqualified yourself by warmongering, peace sabotage, unrealistic proposals, Western Civilisation suicide, migration, stubborn stupidity." T......

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