Overview
- Foreign ministry spokesman Martin Giese said Germany has solid proof and attributed the August 2024 air-navigation breach to GRU-backed APT28, also known as Fancy Bear.
- Authorities said the Storm-1516 influence operation targeted February’s federal election using deepfakes, pseudo-journalistic sites and fabricated witness statements.
- Berlin announced EU-coordinated countermeasures, backing new individual sanctions and further steps to curb hybrid actors.
- The government said EU countries will start monitoring Russian diplomats’ cross-border movements within the Schengen area in January 2026 to reduce intelligence risks.
- Russia’s embassy, citing Ambassador Sergey Nechayev, rejected the allegations as unfounded and called the summons an unfriendly act.