Meanwhile, Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Wednesday at the request of Ukraine\u2019s Naftogaz.<\/p>\n
The seizure was part of a global effort to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award and comes after a European push to seize vessels belonging to Russia\u2019s so-called shadow fleet, which officials say contravenes international sanctions.<\/p>\n
Russia says German cultural presence is over<\/p>\n
Lavrov said that cultural centers belonging to Germany\u2019s Goethe-Institut would be closed in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, adding that any other response would show a lack of \u201cself-respect\u201d on Russia\u2019s part.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Lavrov said that Germany \u201ccould not have failed to understand\u201d that the closure of Russian House would \u201csignify the end of their cultural presence in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
A drone laden with explosives was found near a Ukrainian plane at Leipzig\/Halle Airport on Aug. 4 and later defused. The airport is a major international freight hub used for providing support to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Putin has dismissed the allegations, saying Berlin wants to distract from its own failings and dissatisfaction among voters. Any proof being offered \u201chas been planted,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n
E.U. working on response after attempted Russian attack<\/p>\n
European Union ministers on Wednesday weighed how best to respond to the attempted drone attack but struggled to find new ways to meet the challenge without resorting to military means.<\/p>\n
The E.U. has slapped almost two dozen packages of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, hitting more than 3,000 officials, oligarchs and entities including banks, energy companies and drone makers.<\/p>\n
Germany insisted it was \u201cnot at war\u201d but had become a \u201cdaily target\u201d of the Kremlin\u2019s hybrid campaign.<\/p>\n
Putin dismissed the allegations, saying Berlin aims to distract from its own failings and dissatisfaction among voters. Any proof being offered \u201chas been planted,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n
Denmark sounds alarm about Russian sabotage plans<\/p>\n
Danish security services are warning that Russian acts of sabotage against the country\u2019s defense industry may be imminent.<\/p>\n
Danish intelligence services have seen signs of very specific planning by Russia to conduct sabotage operations in the country, Emil Gr\u00e6sholm, head of counterintelligence at the Danish national security and intelligence service, PET, told the Berlingske newspaper.<\/p>\n
The targets are primarily companies in the defense industry and especially those associated with delivering military components to Ukraine, he said.<\/p>\n
Italy\u2019s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Leipzig\/Halle Airport incident was \u201ca very serious act that could have very grave consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he said the threats aren\u2019t discouraging Italy from providing further help to Kyiv as Rome weighs whether to send SAMP\/T air defense batteries. As in other Western countries, limited weapons production capacity is hampering efforts to supply more to Ukraine, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Wednesday at the request…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":["post-160386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117221334790737086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}