Receipt for the Kaliningrad blockade: Lithuania has been the victim of a major cyber attack – by Putin’s trolls. Political news from June 28 in the live ticker.
- hacker collective Killnet attacked authorities in Lithuania
- Combustion engine off: Coalition finds common position
- dispute about One-off payment 2022: Scholz bonus is on the brink
- increasing the additional contributions: Health insurance is becoming more expensive
- Scotland: Government wants to re-over independence decide
- Verdict: 101-year-old accused of aiding and abetting murder in Sachsenhausen concentration camp sentenced
- missile attack on shopping mall: The death toll after the attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk has risen to 18.
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Cyber attack on Lithuania: In the dispute over the blockade of Kaliningrad, Russia launched a counterattack. Apparently, the Killnet hacker collective attacked authorities and companies in Lithuania on a large scale. The attack was confirmed by the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense. According to this, employees of numerous companies, but also private companies, could not log into the systems of the state data transmission services for a longer period of time.
Killnet attack: Putin’s trolls paralyze authorities in Lithuania
Killnet himself claimed responsibility for the attack. The hacker group is not a blank slate. Since the start of the Ukraine war, she has repeatedly set her sights on targets for the Kremlin. This time, the hackers in chat forums cited the blocking of transport routes to Kaliningrad as the main reason for the attack.
According to the EU sanctions had blocked Lithuania’s routes to the Russian enclave and thus interrupted the transport of steel and other goods to Russia. This caused indignation in the Kremlin. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had therefore announced sharp retaliatory measures.
Burner off: traffic light coalition finds a common position
Ban on combustion engines: During the negotiations at EU level, the federal government agreed on a common position on the possible end of new combustion cars from 2035. This was announced by a government spokesman on Tuesday afternoon. The federal government therefore supports an emerging proposal by the Council on fleet limits as a “contribution on the way to climate-neutral mobility”.
The EU Commission had therefore promised to make a proposal outside the system of fleet limits on how vehicles could be approved after 2035 that would then be operated “exclusively” with e-fuels. the The FDP last had the debate about the combustion engine off in the traffic light coalition braked massively.
One-time payment 2022: CDU rejects tax-free Scholz bonus
Criticism of the Scholz proposal: The opposition has the planned One-off payment 2022 sharply criticized. CDU faction leader Friedrich Merz castigated the federal government’s initiative. Instead of ever new performance promises, the traffic light coalition must finally present an overall concept, Merz demanded. Further relief should benefit all Germans equally and not just the collectively bargained employees.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz had previously promised a new relief package. Instead of wage increases, the unions and employers’ associations should agree on a tax-free one-off payment, Scholz suggested. The coalition hopes that this will prevent a wage-price spiral and stop rising inflation.
Scotland: Government wants to decide on independence again
surprise on the island: The Scots should again decide on their independence. Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a corresponding vote. A corresponding referendum on the separation from the United Kingdom should take place on October 19, 2023, it said. “The time has come to put Scotland on the right track. The time for independence has come,” said the politician.
There was already an attempt in 2014. At that time, however, a majority of Scots (55 percent) voted in the referendum to remain in the United Kingdom. However, that was before Brexit, which the northernmost part of Britain rejected with a clear majority (62 percent). The supporters of independence therefore hope that the situation will change if there is another vote.
Health insurance: Lauterbach announces an increase in additional contributions
Increase in health insurance costs: The members of the statutory health insurance companies must reckon with further burdens. In the coming year, the average additional contribution will be increased by 0.3 percentage points, as Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) announced on Tuesday in Berlin. This increases health insurance contributions to 16.2 percent. The Minister called the step unavoidable because there was no other way to solve a health care financing problem. The increase in contributions is expected to bring in between 4.8 and 5 billion euros.
Verdict: 101-year-old convicted of aiding and abetting murder in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Verdict: A 101-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for being an accessory to murder in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He had been accused of being involved in the deaths of 3,518 prisoners. To the last, the man denied having worked as a security guard in the concentration camp. His defense had pleaded for an acquittal or a suspended sentence. The trial against the 101-year-old started in October 2021, but had to be interrupted several times due to his health condition. The hearing was before the district court of Neuruppin.
War in Ukraine: Death toll in mall attack rises to 18
number of dead rises: After this Rocket attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk in eastern Ukraine the death toll has risen to at least 18. The information goes back to the governor of the Poltava region, Dmytro Lunin, who published it on Tuesday morning via the Telegram news service. The number of injured is around 60 people, 40 people are still missing, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office.
president Volodymyr Zelenskyj stated after the attack, also on Telegram, “The occupiers fired rockets at a shopping center where there were more than a thousand civilians”. According to local authorities, the fire was extinguished on Monday evening.
Because of wars and conflicts: the number of asylum applications in the EU has increased significantly
refugee movement: There has been a significant increase in asylum applications in the EU over the past year. This is reported by the EU asylum authority EUAA. According to this, around 648,000 applications were received in the member states last year. That number is a third higher than a year earlier. The largest groups of applicants were people from war-torn Syria (117,000) and from Afghanistan (102,000). 70 percent of the applications were from men and half of all applicants were between the ages of 18 and 35.
The EUAA also saw a significant increase in applications from unaccompanied minors. With around 23,600 applications, the number was two-thirds higher than in 2020. The current war in Ukraine is also having a clear impact on refugee movements in Europe. So far, more than 3.4 million people from Ukraine are said to have sought temporary protection in the European Union.
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