LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s defence minister Ben Wallace said on Thursday that he did not consider the release of a missile by a Russian aircraft near a British aircraft patrolling in international airspace to be a deliberate escalation. “We don’t consider this a deliberate escalation by the Russians, our analysis would concur it was a malfunction,” Wallace told parliament. “However, it is a reminder of quite how dangerous things can be when you choose to use your fighters in the manner that the Russians have done over many periods of time.” (Reporting by Kylie MacLellan, writing by Farouq Su…