Moscow is concerned about the situation with cooperation with Berlin on cybersecurity, from Germany is a significant number of cyber attacks against facilities and organizations in Russia, said the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following talks with Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Heiko Maas.
"We have expressed to the German side concern about the situation in our cooperation on cyber security," Lavrov said.
"Noted that last year and this year recorded a significant number of cyber attacks against facilities and agencies in Russia, based on the German segment of the Internet", – said the Russian Minister.
At the end of may, the German foreign Minister was summoned to the office of Russia’s Ambassador to Berlin, Sergei Nechayev. He was informed that the General Prosecutor’s office of Germany was declared wanted by the Russian Dmitry Badin on suspicion of involvement in the hacker attack on the Bundestag in April-may 2015. Berlin plans to activate the "cybercentre" against Russia because of this, the Ministry reported. Mode cybermancy EU entered into force in may 2019 and still not used. Under this regime, restrictive measures may include the freezing of assets and bans on travel to EU countries. The imposition of sanctions requires the unanimous approval of all member countries.
The Russian foreign Ministry said that Berlin had not presented evidence of Russia’s involvement in the hacker attack, strongly denied the accusations. As previously stated the Director of the Department of international information security of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia Andrey Krutskikh, Moscow offers to Berlin to consult on cyber security, it would help to settle many of the claims.
