TASS reported on July 18 that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a resolution terminating a defense cooperation agreement with Germany that goes back nearly 30 years. Signed in 1996, when there was still a spirit of détente, the agreement involved transparency and regular contacts between military of both sides. The Russian Foreign Ministry has been instructed to notify the German side about this decision.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that the agreement no longer makes sense because it “doesn’t correspond to the current state of Russian-German interstate relations stemming from the openly hostile policy of the German authorities and the German government’s increasingly aggressive military plans.” The German leadership is deliberately indoctrinating the German population into viewing Russia as the enemy and openly provoking escalation of the military-political situation, the ministry statement says.
