Saturday, April 22, 2023

How Russia Aims to Kill Germany's Support for Ukraine | DW News

Apr 22, 2023 | According to sensitive Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence agency, the Kremlin is trying to engineer German public opinion and German election results to be sympathetic to Russia and hostile to Ukraine and its Western allies. The documents reportedly reveal how Kremlin officials are working to bring together two unlikely bedfellows, Germany's far-right party known as the AfD and Germany's extreme left party, known as the Linke.

The Washington Post has reviewed this trove of Russian documents, and conducted interviews with people close to both political parties. The Post reports that he documents record meetings between Kremlin officials and Russian political strategists, and the Kremlin's orders for the strategists to focus on Germany to build antiwar sentiment in Europe and dampen support for Ukraine.