Tense relationship: Drone incident Leipzig: Lavrov calls allegations "real war"
At Leipzig Airport, explosives are found, the German government sees Russia at work. But the Moscow leadership regards precisely this attribution as a declaration of war.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described Germany's accusations against Moscow over a attempted bomb plot at Leipzig airport as "the beginning of a real war". The allegations relate to a drone with explosives found near a Ukrainian transport plane at Leipzig/Halle airport in early August. The German government attributed the attempted attack to Russian intelligence services after a four-week investigation.
Lavrov also compared the German sanctions, including the closure of the Russian consulate in Bonn and a cultural institute in Berlin, to the start of World War II.
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