Overview
- Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned German Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff on Monday over a Kyiv meeting between CDU lawmaker Roderich Kiesewetter and exiled Chechen leader Akhmed Zakayev.
- Moscow delivered a formal note of protest and warned Berlin of "negative consequences" for what it describes as hostile actions.
- The ministry accused Kiesewetter of backing the banned Ichkeria movement and urging the recruitment of Russian nationals in Germany to destabilize Russia.
- It said members of the group had taken part in sabotage in Russia's Belgorod and Kursk border regions.
- Germany rejected the claims as "completely unfounded and baseless," while Zakayev, wanted by Russia, has lived in the United Kingdom under asylum since 2002.