Russlands Geheimkrieg und die Verschwörung, einen deutschen CEO zu töten | Armin Papperger leitet Rheinmetall, eine deutsche Verteidigungsgesellschaft, die die Ukraine bewaffnet. Die Bemühungen haben den beispiellosen Reichtum des Waffenlieferanten geführt und ein Ziel auf den Rücken gestellt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-04/why-russia-plotted-to-kill-the-rheinmetall-ceo-arming-ukraine
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*From Bloomberg reporters Stephanie Baker and Aaron Kirchfeld:*
The targeting of Armin Papperger represented a new frontier, even when compared with Russia’s long-established and well-documented history of violence against enemies living on foreign soil.
After the invasion of Ukraine, Russian hybrid warfare—not just assassinations but also sabotage, disinformation and covert attacks on critical infrastructure—accelerated sharply, reaching a fever pitch last year. During the Cold War, these techniques were known as “active measures.”
Analysts say the volume and intensity of the tactics was greater during the Ukraine war’s first three years than in the heyday of the Soviet Union, though the pace has slowed in 2025.
I honestly don’t understand the logic. If they succeed, then someone else will take over as CEO and… what? They think they’ll stop selling weapons to Ukraine?
Delusional.
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I don’t think, they tried to kill the CEO – because the CEO, despite being a former engineer, is not responsible for developement of weapons and technology in the factories and labs. He’d also just have been replaced by someone else and the business would not have changed at all.
How do we even know, it were the Russians, when no one was caught?
Just saying, it doubt this. I don’t doubt the hybrid-warfare, no, but i think, it wasn’t about this in his case.
Thats a new dimension in Europe. No doubt. But to be honest. How much Times in past, attacked Russia, opposition politicians or human rights activists on European soil? Europe should answer on this matter. No hesitation. Its literally acts of Terror done by Russia
;🎵“Come you Masters of War“ 🎵
This CEO guy is as credible as the orange man when it comes to delivering on promises.
He wanted to create a factory for tanks in Ukraine in wartime.
Tanks which are merely technology demonstrators. Demonstrators which are highly debatable when it comes to the value they are supposed to bring.
Tanks which they are not eligible to manufacture because they don’t even own rights to the chassis of Leopard 2 that is the base for the demonstrator.
Sounds like another PR stunt to boost his ego.
If I were the German state I would go out and say that the assassination of a German civilian would be seen as a act of war.
Garbage title plus this is from more than a year ago.
This whole ass article was just framed out of this:
> An anonymous letter soon surfaced on a left-wing internet platform claiming responsibility for the arson attack. The letter lambasted Rheinmetall for profiting from Russia’s invasion and ended with a curious demand: to free from jail a former member of the Red Army Faction, or RAF, a militant group that murdered prominent German businesspeople and public figures in the 1970s and 1980s, including the CEO of Deutsche Bank in 1989. “His place of retreat is not safe,” the anonymous perpetrators wrote of Papperger.
It’s imaginations for propaganda.
So russia is focusing industry bosses etc.? Yes are you really sure? So since 3 years they didnt manage to kill or injure just one of them? Not even tried to? This is the story you are trying to sell to me?
What a waste of time.