At the start of October Alexander Dobrindt, the German Interior minister, called Russia the biggest current thread for Germany and referred to its sabotage against Germany and other European countries as a “shadow war”. A week later, Prime minister Freidrich Merz, on the other hand, describes, how the situation in Europe is the tensiest it has been since the end of the Cold War and that citizens should not underestimate the threat.
As a consequence of suspected hybrid and reconnaissance attacks against Europe and culminating to the find of a crashed drone carrying explosives near the Wunstorf air base in Lower Saxony in mid-September, German military forces have raised their internal threat scale to the second-highest level, significant. Moscow keeps rejecting all the accusations
