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Denmark summons Russian ambassador after drone incident at Leipzig airport

From Berlingske · () Danish

Translated from Danish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Denmark will summon Russian Ambassador Vladimir Barbin after Germany said Russia was involved in an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August.
  • Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen called the finding shocking and said Copenhagen would tell Moscow that it knew what Russia was doing and would not accept it.
  • No one was injured when a drone carrying explosives was discovered, while Vladimir Putin accused Germany of planting evidence to blame Russia.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen says Russia has been caught out. Denmark’s foreign minister decided to summon Russian Ambassador Vladimir Barbin after Germany said it had evidence linking Moscow to an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August.

I am not surprised, but it is nevertheless shocking that the Germans can now prove that it was the Russians who were behind the situation in Leipzig, which could have gone terribly wrong

— Lars Løkke RasmussenThe Danish foreign minister described Germany’s reported evidence linking Russia to the airport incident.

“I am not surprised, but it is nevertheless shocking that the Germans can now prove that it was the Russians who were behind the situation in Leipzig, which could have gone terribly wrong,” Løkke said while attending an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Ireland.

He said the disclosure called for “a reaction” and that Denmark would summon the ambassador to the Foreign Ministry as soon as possible. The message, he said, would match one delivered by several other European countries: “You have been discovered. We know what you are doing, and we will not accept it.”

A reaction

— Lars Løkke RasmussenWhy he said Denmark would summon the Russian ambassador.

Such meetings are normally handled by a senior Foreign Ministry official rather than the foreign minister personally. Russian President Vladimir Putin responded on Tuesday by accusing Germany of planting evidence to make Russia responsible for the attempted attack. No one was injured in the August incident, when a drone carrying explosives was discovered at the airport.

You have been discovered. We know what you are doing, and we will not accept it

— Lars Løkke RasmussenThe message Denmark plans to deliver to Russia.
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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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