Andreas Umland
Andreas Umland is a German political scientist specializing in post-Soviet affairs. He is a senior policy fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Geopolitical Studies and an associate researcher at the Fletcher School's Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Tufts University. Umland is known for his work on the political history of Ukraine, Russia, and other post-Soviet states, as well as for studies of Eurasian authoritarianism and Russian imperial discourse.
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Lavrov calls Germany's response to Leipzig drone incident "the beginning of a real war"
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described Germany's reaction to an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport as "the beginning of a real war," drawing an analogy to pre-World War II diplomatic closures. Germany officially accused Russia on September 1 of orchestrating the incident, closed Russia's last consulate general in Bonn, and terminated the agreement for the "Russian House" in Berlin. Russia retaliated by announcing closures of German Goethe-Institut branches. No one was injured and Ukrainian Antonov aircraft were not damaged, though the An-124's cargo remains disputed.