{"id":2100,"date":"2025-08-28T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:46:33","slug":"kremlin-dismisses-nyt-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/kremlin-dismisses-nyt-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin dismisses NYT \u2018hoax\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected claims that Russian drones have flown over Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A New York Times (NYT) report\u00a0claiming that Russian surveillance drones have been flying over military supply routes in Germany\u00a0<em>\u201clooks more like another newspaper hoax,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0NYT article published on Thursday cited US and European officials\u00a0expressing concern about alleged Russian intelligence gathering across Europe. The NYT claimed that Russian drones\u00a0have monitored\u00a0US and other western military shipments through eastern Germany, particularly those bound for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Local media outlet WirtschaftsWoche has also alleged drone activity near German military bases, citing local defense officials who described it as a security risk.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin spokesman countered that if Russian drones had actually been operating in Germany, the country\u2019s authorities would have certainly noticed and spoken up.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as a number of Western European governments have been voicing fears of a supposed Russian military threat to the EU. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed such claims as baseless fearmongering used by Western leaders to beef up military budgets.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/622807-europe-building-for-war\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Europe rapidly \u2018building for war\u2019 \u2013 FT<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Financial Times reported that Europe was rapidly expanding its weapons plants and <em>\u201cbuilding for war,\u201d<\/em> calling it <em>\u201crearmament on a historic scale.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moscow has accused European leaders of pushing the continent towards confrontation. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has charged that Western governments are trying to prepare Europe for <em>\u201ca real war against Russia,\u201d<\/em> accusing the EU of exhibiting a <em>\u201cRussophobic frenzy\u201d<\/em> and uncontrolled militarization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected claims that Russian drones have flown over Germany A New York Times (NYT) report\u00a0claiming that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}