SYKTYVKAR, September 9. /TASS/. Moscow views the anti-Russian hysteria in Europe following the incident involving a drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport as a pre-planned escalatory maneuver, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing in Syktyvkar.
"We view this latest episode of anti-Russian hysteria in Europe as a pre-planned escalatory maneuver, sanctioned by the EU and NATO leadership bound by mutual complicity, and having nothing to do with an objective investigation. It is obvious that the goal and objective of such actions is to maintain a high level of Russophobia within European society - a sentiment intended to mask the gross political and economic miscalculations of European elites and to justify, in the eyes of citizens, the allocation of vast resources to fund Ukraine and the accelerated ramping up of European military-industrial complexes under the pretext of preparing for an allegedly inevitable armed clash - as they put it - with our country," Zakharova said. "If it is inevitable, may the admit that they are the ones striving for it."
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry official, the widespread dissemination of baseless, false, and even absurd accusations against Russia regarding - as the West calls it - "subversive activities" has become a mandatory element of the information war.
