Post by jonksy on Aug 6, 2023 0:08:52 GMT
To fuck up and pick the wrong side in their own interest..
Aide to German MP worked with Russia to delay tanks for Ukraine, report claims...
The delivery of German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks have been a crucial element of military
support for Kyiv - Oscar Del Pozo/AFP via Getty Images
A parliamentary aide from the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party worked on a clandestine plan to use Russian money to delay the delivery of tanks to Ukraine, it has been claimed.
Vladimir Sergienko, a naturalised German citizen who was born in Ukraine, travelled to Moscow on at least two occasions to allegedly meet a handler and discuss plans to use legal tricks to delay German military support to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reported on Friday, citing leaked emails and text messages between the pair.
Mr Sergienko, 52, works as a translator for an AfD MP and has access to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, and is said to have excellent connections inside the Moscow political elite.
While it is unclear who exactly he was meeting in Moscow, Western intelligence agencies are said to suspect that his contact is a handler for Russia’s foreign spy agency, the FSB.
Mr Sergienko, speaking to the Insider, a Russian news outlet that partnered with Der Spiegel on the investigation, dismissed the story as a “blooming fantasy”.
Vladimir Sergienko, a naturalised German citizen who was born in Ukraine, travelled to Moscow on at least two occasions to allegedly meet a handler and discuss plans to use legal tricks to delay German military support to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reported on Friday, citing leaked emails and text messages between the pair.
Mr Sergienko, 52, works as a translator for an AfD MP and has access to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, and is said to have excellent connections inside the Moscow political elite.
While it is unclear who exactly he was meeting in Moscow, Western intelligence agencies are said to suspect that his contact is a handler for Russia’s foreign spy agency, the FSB.
Mr Sergienko, speaking to the Insider, a Russian news outlet that partnered with Der Spiegel on the investigation, dismissed the story as a “blooming fantasy”.
