Germany holds Russia responsible for the Leipzig Airport attack and decides to close the Bonn Consulate

The German authorities held Russia responsible for the attack on Leipzig Airport in early August, and decided to close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn by September 18, and end the agreement related to the Russian House in Berlin. This was announced by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadewohl.

Vadevol also announced that he had ordered the summoning of the Russian ambassador to Berlin, Sergei Nechaev, to the German Foreign Ministry, and that Germany would tighten entry procedures for Russian citizens. Berlin is preparing new sanctions lists against Russia in the European Union.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that the Russian House and the Russian Consulate General "have been harassing the German authorities for a long time," and that Germany has finally found a pretext to close them. She said that Berlin was “involved in fueling the Ukrainian conflict and participating in terrorist attacks,” and Berlin did not provide any evidence to support its accusations.

In this regard, Bogdan Bezbalko, a member of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations, told Argumenti e Fakti: “If Germany orders the expulsion of Russian diplomats, this will represent a decline in diplomatic relations, and this is an extremely dangerous step. Even in Britain they have stated that they do not intend to lower the level of relations, even though Britain is in a more severe conflict with Russia than Germany. What is happening now is saturated with populism and hysteria, which are two essential elements for the parties Which calls for "war with Russia", such as the CDU/CSU and the Green Party. At the same time, the horizon of the various EU sanctions against Russia has been exhausted, which is precisely why the AfD, which advocates cheap energy, has gained such great popularity.