Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and current deputy chair of the country’s Security Council, has accused German conservative leader Friedrich Merz of making incendiary comments about Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Merz has said in the past that if he was in power Germany could send long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev – a step Chancellor Olaf Scholz has steadfastly refused to take. Medvedev wrote on Telegram that these missiles are incapable of significantly altering the course of the battle in Ukraine’s favour. “But the risk of the conflict escalating into a more dangerous ph…