BERLIN, September 4. /TASS/. Fabio De Masi, a European Parliament member and co-chair of Germany’s BSW party, has called upon his government to break out of the spiral of escalation and start a dialogue with Moscow, calling claims of Russian involvement in the Leipzig/Halle drone incident baseless.
"It takes one unexploded drone containing explosives to trigger a barrage of sanctions. But what evidence is actually available?" he wrote on his Facebook page (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).
At the same time, the European Parliament member drew contrast with the investigation into the Nord Stream sabotage.
"We know a lot more about the situation surrounding the Nord Stream explosions, thanks to an investigation by Germany’s federal prosecutor general. Today we can assume with a high degree of certainty that a Ukrainian terrorist group is to blame. Yet how does the federal government react to the Nord Stream situation?" he asked rhetorically.
"Together with the EU, we have, among other things, transferred 90 billion [euros] to Ukrainian oligarchs to prolong the war of attrition that cannot be won. Meanwhile, as far as Russia is concerned, there have been calls to toughen sanctions," the parliamentarian continued. "As the BSW party, we demand to break out of this spiral of escalation. We need communication channels with Russia in order to put an end to this madness!"
