Germany has temporarily recalled its ambassador to Moscow after members of the ruling party were targeted in what Berlin said was a state-sponsored Russian cyberattack.
The German ambassador to Russia was recalled for consultations on Monday after Berlin accused Moscow of carrying out cyberattacks.
Targets of the campaign included members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats.
What does the recall mean?
In line with protocol, a spokesperson said, Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is to return to Berlin on a temporary basis.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Lambsdorff had “been called back for consultations and will stay in Berlin for a week and then return to Moscow.”
The spokesperson said the decision had come from Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
The German government takes the cyberattack “very seriously,” considering it an action “against our liberal democracy,” the spokesperson said.
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The German government takes the cyberattack “very seriously,” considering it an action “against our liberal democracy,” the spokesperson said.
Great! As a german I suggest a good, old ‘fuck you’ in form of the Taurus delivered to Ukraine. This would be a statement even a degnerate like Putin would understand.
I think at the moment they are more in favor of using frozen Russian assets to finance further support for Ukraine. It’s something
Fuck it, buy extra Taurus systems with frozen Russian assets. We can have both.
I like like like
Yeah… we noticed 13 attempts, we will be delivering 1 Taurus per attempt plus 2 for good measure.
Point of order: That is a slick-looking hat.
But it doesn’t have three corners, so is it truly a German hat?
The world really needs a bullet in putin’s brain.
It isn’t that easy, another one will fill that spot. And there’s no guarantees they’ll be any better.
I have an idea. How about we support an Islamic extremist uprising and coup. That will surely work.
oh, like Iran 1979, yeah that worked out great!
You dont need to go back so much. Look at the Taliban in Afgahnistan.
Germany, Britain, Russia, China. The Olympics started early this year.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Lambsdorff had “been called back for consultations and will stay in Berlin for a week and then return to Moscow.”
A newly concluded government investigation found the cyberattack had been carried out by a group — linked to Moscow’s GRU military intelligence agency — known as APT28.
The APT28 attacks exploited a then-unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook software to compromise email accounts, German authorities say.
On Monday, the Czech Republic announced it had summoned the Russian ambassador over alleged cyberattacks on its institutions and critical infrastructure.
“We have called on the Russian Federation to refrain from this behavior, which is contrary to United Nations standards and its own obligations,” Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on X, formerly Twitter.
Berlin’s decision to recall its ambassador comes three days after the German Foreign Office summoned the Russian envoy in protest at the alleged attacks.
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