{"id":3825,"date":"2026-09-03T22:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:12:18","slug":"russia-to-shut-german-cultural-centers-as-moscow-berlin-tensions-escalate-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Russia to shut German cultural centers as Moscow-Berlin tensions escalate over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2292597251-e1788465566570.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia will close German cultural centers on its territory, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday in a retaliatory measure reflecting the\u00a0deepening tensions\u00a0between Moscow and European countries that are helping Ukraine resist the\u00a0Kremlin\u2019s 4 1\/2-year-old invasion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lavrov\u2019s announcement came after Berlin blamed Moscow for\u00a0an attempted drone attack\u00a0at Leipzig\/Halle Airport on Aug. 4. The explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane at the airport, a major international freight hub used for providing\u00a0support to Ukraine. The drone was later defused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier Thursday in Munich, several incendiary devices were thrown at a construction site near a building where several companies, including from the defense sector, are located, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office said. There was a brief fire that caused no significant damage, police said, adding they suspect the target was one of the companies in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested, police said, but their suspected involvement was not confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western officials have repeatedly accused Moscow of conducting a\u00a0campaign of sabotage and disruption\u00a0in their countries with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations, something Russia denies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany says it has become a \u201cdaily target\u201d of the Kremlin\u2019s hybrid campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said Wednesday it was closing both the Russian Consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural center in the German capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lavrov countered 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told an economic forum in the Far East city of Vladivostok that Germany \u201ccould not have failed to understand\u201d that closing the center in Berlin would \u201csignify the end of their cultural presence in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian President Vladimir Putin said Berlin wants to distract from its own failings and dissatisfaction among voters. Any proof being offered \u201chas been planted,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Europe increasingly views itself as facing what it calls hybrid attacks by Russia, marked by cyberwarfare and disinformation as well as a conventional military threat. Each side accuses the other of state terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tension has continued for months and grown into a major foreign and defense policy challenge for countries in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin\u00a0is testing the West\u00a0with tactics that fall \u201cjust below the threshold of war\u201d and is determined to \u201charass NATO members,\u201d the head of Britain\u2019s MI6 spy agency said last year.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">European countries seek to counter Russia\u2019s threat<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following Germany\u2019s claims, Poland, Denmark, Finland, the U.K., the Czech Republic and Lithuania have summoned Russian diplomats stationed in their countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Norway, authorities on Wednesday\u00a0seized a Russian vessel\u00a0in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard at the request of Ukraine\u2019s state-owned Naftogaz energy group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Norwegian court ordered the seizure as part of efforts by Naftogaz to recover a $4.22 billion arbitration award stemming from Russia\u2019s 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and its seizure of Ukrainian energy assets, including gas fields and pipelines. After Moscow refused to pay the 2023 award, Naftogaz petitioned national courts for orders to seize Russian commercial assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin on Thursday compared it to \u201cstate terrorism,\u201d and Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry summoned Norway\u2019s ambassador to Moscow, Heidi Olufsen, to protest the seizure of the vessel, which it said belongs to the state weather and environmental monitoring agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It carried workers, scientists and cargo to Russian settlements on one of the islands in Svalbard, the ministry said, adding that Moscow \u201cwill seek to lift the vessel\u2019s arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Finland, meanwhile, more than 2,000 people took part Thursday in the\u00a0biggest civil defense exercise\u00a0in Europe since the end of World War II. Among the threats envisioned were missile strikes from neighboring Russia.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EU weighs how to respond further<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EU has slapped almost two dozen\u00a0packages of sanctions\u00a0on Russia over the war, targeting over 3,000 officials, oligarchs and entities including banks, energy companies and drone makers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One senior EU official said the bloc\u2019s anti-terrorism procedures could be put to effective use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we list individuals as terrorists, we can deploy a range of instruments to actually target those individuals and to track them, all their activities and people associated with those individuals,\u201d EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Bartjan Wegter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told The Associated Press that EU methods for combating terrorist financing and money laundering, as well as boosting the resilience of infrastructure like airports, could be put to good use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a very worrying development,\u201d Wegter said of the failed Leipzig drone attack. But he noted that \u201cit is not new what we\u2019re seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Russia and Iran have used hybrid warfare methods before, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re actually deploying terrorist tactics\u201d that are meant to \u201cdestabilize our society,\u201d Wegter added.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Denmark sounds alarm about Russian sabotage plans<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Danish security services are warning that Russian acts of sabotage against the country\u2019s defense industry may be imminent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intelligence services have seen signs of specific planning by Russia to conduct sabotage operations in Denmark, Emil Gr\u00e6sholm, head of counterintelligence at the national security and intelligence service PET, told the Berlingske newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The targets are primarily companies in the defense industry and especially those associated with delivering military components to Ukraine, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Ambassador Vladimir Barbin said PET has not presented any concrete evidence that Moscow was preparing sabotage acts in Denmark. He said Gr\u00e6sholm\u2019s comments were actually an acknowledgement of Denmark\u2019s involvement in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transformation of Danish territory into a production and logistics base for the Ukrainian military posed a security risk to Denmark, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Italy\u2019s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told AP on Wednesday that the German airport incident was \u201ca very serious act that could have very grave consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he said the threats aren\u2019t discouraging Italy from further helping 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davies reported from Manchester, England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at\u00a0https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Russia #shut #German #cultural #centers #MoscowBerlin #tensions #escalate #Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia will close German cultu&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1062,5301,4591,2995,5852,4054,6676,1503,2573,1002,1432],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-centers","tag-cultural","tag-escalate","tag-european-union","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-moscowberlin","tag-russia","tag-shut","tag-tensions","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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