Putin putting the thumbscrews to the EU, because that's where the illegals are going to go, for trying to stir up NATO to defend the Ukraine, perhaps.
I know that if someone living in Russia can show any trace of German in their ancestry they can get German citizenship. Know some of these as neighbors and they're good people, basically. Make nice neighbors. I don't think those now being expelled are the same caliber, because the ones I know aren't the type of people you want to chase out of your country.
So look for German activist lawyers grouping up to dig up ancestry connections for those undesireables being forced to leave Russia, Sea Witch group style.
CDU just picked Laschet as the successor candidate to Merkel, eschewing the more immigration hardliner Soeder, while the AfD went all in on an anti-migrant platform.
Gonna' be a hot summer in DE.