War between Russia and the West is no longer hybrid but is ‘almost a real one’, Sergei Lavrov warns 

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov today warned the war between Russia and the West is no longer hybrid but was ‘almost a real one’, as he blasted Western nations for sending billions of pounds worth of arms to Ukraine.

Western allies pledged billions of dollars in weapons for Kyiv last week and Poland’s prime minister said today his government would ask Germany for permission to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine – and planned to send them whether or not Berlin agreed.

The Kyiv government desperately wants the German-made Leopard 2 tank to break through Russian lines and recapture territory this year. 

Lavrov today claimed that the conflict between…