Russian president Vladimir Putin with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister

Russia’s foreign minister just compared the West to “small children playing with matches” in his latest attack on Ukraine’s supporters.

Sergei Lavrov, one of Vladimir Putin’s top aides for the last two decades, suggested the US and its allies were tempting World War 3 by allowing Ukraine to attack Russia with Western missiles.

On Wednesday, he said: “We are now confirming once again that playing with fire – and they are like small children playing with matches – is a very dangerous thing for grown-up uncles and aunts who are entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another Western countries.

“Americans unequivocally associate conversations about Third World War as something that, God forbid, if it........

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