{"id":81967,"date":"2026-07-13T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81967"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:30:19","slug":"germany-summons-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/germany-summons-russian\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany summons Russian ambassador over cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany has protested a series of cyberattacks against its institutions and other European countries. Berlin said the attacks were directed by Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Turla group blamed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"German news\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?s=german\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a> Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Kathrin Deschauer said German authorities had concluded that the cyber group known as Turla was behind the attacks. Deschauer stated that the group targeted EU member states and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>FSB\u2019s 16th Centre identified<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>According to Germany, investigations carried out by German intelligence agencies and European partners identified the FSB\u2019s 16th Centre as responsible for the cyber operations.<\/p>\n<p>Deschauer said comprehensive analyses showed that the same unit had also compromised German institutions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cPart of a broader pattern\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said the incident was not seen as an isolated case. Deschauer said Germany had observed malicious cyber activities originating from Russia for many years, targeting Germany, EU member states and international partners.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>EU to impose new sanctions<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The European Union has decided to impose new sanctions in response to the FSB-linked cyber activities. According to the EU statement, the sanctions target several intelligence officers, cybercriminals, self-proclaimed hacktivists and private companies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Germany summons Russian ambassador, accusing Moscow of sabotage, cyberattacks, and interference\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tk9hxBVvwxU\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany has protested a series of cyberattacks against its institutions and other European countries. Berlin said the attacks were directed by Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service. Turla group blamed German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Kathrin Deschauer said German authorities had concluded that the cyber group known as Turla was behind the attacks. Deschauer stated that the group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[12762,80146,2861,51545,703,599,80743,3785,80413],"class_list":["post-81967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-berlin","tag-cyberattack","tag-european-union","tag-fsb","tag-germany","tag-russia","tag-turla","tag-ukraine","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81969,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions\/81969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}