The German government recalls the ambassador in Moscow, Alexander Lambsdorff, to Berlin for consultations.
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This decision was announced on Monday, May 6, by a representative of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. The reason for the recall of the ambassador is a Russian cyber attack on the email accounts of members of the German SPD party.
It is expected that Alexander Lambsdorf will stay in Berlin for a week and then return to Russia.
The German government holds the hacker group APT 28 responsible for exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook to hack the email accounts of SPD members. The hackers are believed to have been doing this since at least March 2022.
In addition, cyber attacks were directed against government agencies and companies in the logistics, defense, aerospace and IT sectors. According to a report published by the German government, the Russian military intelligence unit GRU was responsible for the cyberattack on the SPD.
In addition, Germany will not delegate its representatives to the so-called “inauguration” of dictator Vladimir Putin.
German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Katrin Deschauer announced this at a briefing on Monday, Ukrinform reports.
Germany will not participate in this event, she noted.
When asked about the possible presence of the German Ambassador in Moscow, she repeated:
We will not be represented.
The deputy representative of the federal government, Christine Goffmann, in turn, added that Berlin does not recognize the Russian elections as legitimate, since they did not meet democratic standards at all.
Source: Racurs
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