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Berlin has summoned Russia's ambassador implicit what it said was a immense summation successful threatening hybrid activities including disinformation campaigns, espionage, cyberattacks and attempted sabotage, a German Foreign Ministry spokesperson said connected Friday (December 12, 2025).
"This greeting we truthful summoned the Russian Ambassador to the overseas bureau and made it wide that we are monitoring Russia's actions precise intimately and volition instrumentality enactment against them," spokesperson Martin Giese said during a regular quality conference.
The accusations travel astatine a clip of heightened concerns successful Europe implicit suspected Russian hackers and spies since Moscow's penetration of Ukraine successful 2022. The Russian embassy did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Reuters. The Kremlin has antecedently said European allegations of a Russian sabotage oregon hybrid run are wholly unsubstantiated.
A cyberattack against German aerial postulation power successful August 2024 has present been attributed to the GRU-backed Russian hacker corporate APT-28, besides known arsenic Fancy Bear, the spokesperson said.
He added that attempts to power German elections earlier this twelvemonth person been definitively linked to Storm-1516, a pro-Russian power cognition antecedently observed successful the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike predetermination that was investigated by U.S. authorities.
