Russia's Deputy Security Council Chairman Medvedev says "Germany deserves a direct strike on military equipment production for Kyiv", Ria reports

Within Medvedev's Telegram channel: "They deserve a direct strike on all German military equipment production facilities for the Bandera clique. And quite possibly on several other locations in Berlin as well".

Medvedev occupies a specific role in Russian signalling: his pronouncements have consistently run well ahead of actual policy, functioning as coercive noise rather than operational intent, and prior threats from him against NATO states and their capitals have not been followed by action. The operative distinction is between rhetoric aimed at deterring European weapons production and financing for Ukraine and rhetoric that precedes kinetic steps; episodes of the former kind have tended to fade without market follow-through once no official echo appears from the Kremlin proper or the defence ministry. The transmission channel when such threats have mattered historically has been European defence equities bid on the militarisation read-through, a mild risk premium into bunds and the euro, and gas market sensitivity to any suggestion of supply infrastructure being in scope. What separates signal from noise is corroboration: whether Putin, Peskov, or Shoigu-line officials adopt the framing, whether it appears in formal channels rather than Telegram, and whether there is any observable military posture change. Absent that, the established pattern is a brief headline-driven wobble that reverses. Worth noting is whether Berlin or NATO respond formally, since alliance-level statements have occasionally extended the story's half-life.