“Germany accused Russia of being involved in a large-scale campaign of disinformation and cyberattacks ahead of parliamentary elections in the country and summoned the Russian ambassador to speak.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European truth” with reference to Spiegel
Details: A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said that Germany had established Russia’s involvement in a large-scale disinformation campaign and cyber attack ahead of the February 2025 federal elections; in this connection, the ambassador of the Russian Federation was summoned for a conversation.
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He added that the disinformation campaign codenamed “Storm-1516” was aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country.
As part of it, false materials were distributed using numerous sites disguised as news resources. The information was most often directed against the CDU-CSU and the Greens.
Among the widely circulated fabrications is a video of a man who called himself a doctor and claimed that CDU leader Friedrich Merz, then an expected chancellor candidate, had undergone treatment for serious mental health problems three years ago. Fake documents were cited in the video to support this.
They also dispelled a fictional story about an alleged corruption scandal of 100 million euros with the participation of the co-leader of the “Greens”, at that time vice chancellor Robert Habek, and Ukrainian politicians.
A few days before the vote, they began dispelling the fiction of tampering with documents for voting by mail – in one of the districts of Leipzig, voters were allegedly sent ballots without “Alternative for Germany” on the list.
Earlier it became known that in view of the growing threat of hybrid attacks, especially from Russia, the Federal Office for the Protection of the German Constitution (BfV) seeks to expand powers.
Military intelligence of Germany says about growing threat of espionage and sabotage.
We will remind, in Poland, after the sabotage on the railway, it was noticed Russian throwbacks in the information space, where they tried to shift the blame to Ukraine and promote “alternative versions”.