Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has threatened Germany with a “direct strike” on its military production facilities after Berlin accused Moscow of being behind a drone attack on Leipzig Airport last month. Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia’s security council and a routinely outspoken provocateur, wrote on Telegram that Germany’s leadership “deserve a direct strike on all German military equipment production facilities ... and quite possibility on several other locations in Berlin as well”. In an ominous addendum he suggested: “Every terror has sponsors.
At the moment, these are the heads of Western countries, primarily European ones. And they often travel to Kyiv by train...” Airport workers last month found a drone laden with explosives and a detonator at the airport, an important civilian freight and Nato logistics hub in eastern Germany that is also a base for several giant Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo planes. Germany has blamed Moscow for the attack, characterising it as part of hybrid warfare meant to intimidate and cause divisions in countries that have supported Ukraine over the Russian invasion.
Russia denies involvement and has vowed to respond to what its foreign ministry spokesperson called “anti-Russian action”. Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev has threatened Germany with a “direct strike” on its military production facilities after Berlin accused Moscow of being behind a drone attack on Leipzig Airport last month. Russian forces struck two cargo vessels on Wednesday, one in Ukraine's port of Chornomorsk and another in the Black Sea, Russia's Defence Ministry said.
The ministry said the vessels were transporting weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainian military. It also said Russian forces struck three logistics centres in the Kyiv region and port infrastructure in Odesa. could not independently verify the ministry's assertions. Russian drones tore into central Kyiv on Wednesday morning, wounding 11 people and damaging residential and university buildings on the seventh day of nearly round-the-clock attacks that have upended daily life in the city.
The attack on a downtown university took place while students were in class, forcing some 160 to seek shelter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Two people were also killed and eight wounded in Russian strikes on the southeastern city of Dnipro, the regional governor said, where food warehouses and educational buildings were damaged. It came as Ukraine braces for a new season of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, amid a critical shortage of US-designed missile interceptors needed to down Moscow's ballistic missiles.
Earlier on Wednesday, Russia struck power facilities in the southern Odesa region with missiles and drones, authorities said, knocking out power to more than 350,000 homes. Russian President Vladimir Putin said late on Tuesday he had ordered his forces to prepare the new campaign of "massive" strikes. "Unfortunately, there has been far too little response from the world and its most influential leaders to this latest Russian escalation of strikes," Zelensky wrote on X.
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