Russia accuses Germany of "Russophobic hysteria"
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Russia says the authorities in Berlin have been undermining the process of historical reconciliation between Russia and Germany after World War II.
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Russia accuses Germany of "Russophobic hysteria"
Russia accused Wednesday Germany of anti-Russian sentiment in a statement on the anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi troops in 1941.
"Russophobic hysteria is systematically fuelled by almost daily public attacks against our country by members of the German government," Russia's Foreign Ministry considered.
It pointed out that the authorities in Berlin "have recently been undermining the process of historical reconciliation between Russians and Germans" after World War II.
The Russian Foreign Ministry indicated that Berlin "jeopardizes the results of the efforts made by Russia and Germany for decades to overcome post-war enmity, hostility and distrust between the peoples of our countries."
It said "the anti-Russian propaganda campaign" has provoked "unmotivated aggression bordering on mass psychosis" against Russians and Russian speakers in Germany.
The ministry also accused NATO member Germany of building up its military presence near Russia's western borders, "bringing to mind the most bitter periods of Russian-German relations for our people, including the events preceding May 1945."
Earlier on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin wall in Moscow on the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Last week Russia's energy giant Gazprom cut gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline, citing delayed repairs, a move Berlin called an "economic attack".
Advanced German artillery now deployed in Ukraine: Kiev
It is noteworthy that Berlin has joined international sanctions on Moscow over the war in Ukraine and supplied weapons to Kiev.
Advanced German artillery systems have been deployed in Ukraine as part of the latest deliveries of the long-term precision weapons that it has been asking for, Kiev said Tuesday.
"Panzerhaubitze 2000 are finally part of 155 mm howitzer arsenal of the Ukrainian artillery," Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov wrote on social media, thanking his German counterpart Christine Lambrecht.
Berlin had said in May that it would send self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine as part of its bid of intensifying deliveries of heavy arms to help Kiev against Russia.
A Ukrainian diplomatic source in Germany told AFP that all the seven pledged German howitzers had made it to Ukraine.
