🚨 BREAKING: Russia just declared Germany has effectively started "a real war," and it's tied to a drone that landed at a German airport.
Speaking to Russian state media, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov didn't hold back: "They found some drone. They said it was a Russian drone and nobody bothered to investigate... This is, in general, by and large, the beginning of such a real war."
The backstory: Germany accused Russia on September 1 of a hybrid attack involving an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month. Berlin's response was immediate, closing Russia's consulate general in Bonn and shutting down the Russian House cultural center in Berlin. Russia denies any involvement and says Berlin fabricated the evidence.
Lavrov went further than just disputing the accusation. He drew a direct line to Nazi Germany, pointing to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's stated ambition to make Germany "the leading military power in Europe" again. His words: "The lessons of history have not been learned at all, it turns out that these metastases of Nazism have begun to break through."
He even invoked WWII directly, noting that "before the start of... the Great Patriotic War, the Germans also closed their diplomatic missions," implying today's consulate closures echo that history.
Germany, notably, isn't matching the rhetoric. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt pushed back days earlier: "We are not at war. But we are the target of hybrid warfare."
One irony hanging over all of it: Russia has spent nearly four years refusing to call its own invasion of Ukraine a "war," insisting on the term "special military operation," while now accusing Germany of starting one over a single drone.
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Speaking to Russian state media, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov didn't hold back: "They found some drone. They said it was a Russian drone and nobody bothered to investigate... This is, in general, by and large, the beginning of such a real war."
The backstory: Germany accused Russia on September 1 of a hybrid attack involving an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month. Berlin's response was immediate, closing Russia's consulate general in Bonn and shutting down the Russian House cultural center in Berlin. Russia denies any involvement and says Berlin fabricated the evidence.
Lavrov went further than just disputing the accusation. He drew a direct line to Nazi Germany, pointing to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's stated ambition to make Germany "the leading military power in Europe" again. His words: "The lessons of history have not been learned at all, it turns out that these metastases of Nazism have begun to break through."
He even invoked WWII directly, noting that "before the start of... the Great Patriotic War, the Germans also closed their diplomatic missions," implying today's consulate closures echo that history.
Germany, notably, isn't matching the rhetoric. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt pushed back days earlier: "We are not at war. But we are the target of hybrid warfare."
One irony hanging over all of it: Russia has spent nearly four years refusing to call its own invasion of Ukraine a "war," insisting on the term "special military operation," while now accusing Germany of starting one over a single drone.
#Russia #Germany #Lavrov #Geopolitics #BreakingNews
