Lavrov Accuses Germany of Wanting War Again — SkimNews
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- Sergei Lavrov said Germany "wants war again" in a September 6, 2026 interview, drawing a parallel to the period before World War II and accusing Germany of Nazism
- Germany had blamed Moscow for sending "low-level agents" to carry out a hybrid attack involving an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig airport in eastern Germany, a claim Russia dismissed
- Moscow and Berlin closed each other's cultural centres this week, with the Russian consulate general expelled from Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin shut down
- EU countries summoned Russian envoys in response to the drone incident, deepening the diplomatic rupture between the bloc and Russia
- Lavrov warned that "the Russian leadership will draw the appropriate conclusions" from Germany's actions, escalating the rhetorical standoff
- Lavrov gave the interview ahead of tightly controlled Russian parliamentary elections later this month, with part of it published by state-run Vesti TV channel
Why it matters: Germany is one of Ukraine's main military backers, so Lavrov invoking pre-WWII parallels and threatening unspecified Russian "conclusions" raises the diplomatic stakes for Berlin and the EU at a moment when EU states have already summoned Russian envoys over the Leipzig drone incident — the most direct rhetorical escalation from Moscow toward a key NATO ally since the Ukraine invasion began.
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