Three Ukrainians have actually been arrested for their believed participation in the delivery of exploding bundles, German prosecutors said on Wednesday, after a series of fires at European courier depots indicated believed Russian sabotage.Packages detonated at depots in Britain, Germany and Poland last summer added to an air of suspicion in Europe, where intelligence authorities have actually cautioned of a growing danger from hybrid attacks in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.The suspects are believed to have actually been in contact with people working for Russian state institutions, federal prosecutors stated in a statement.Two of the men, identified in line with German personal privacy laws just as Vladyslav T.
and Daniil B., were jailed over the weekend in Germany.
Another, recognized as Yevhen B., was arrested on Tuesday in Switzerland.
The offenders are highly presumed of functioning as agents for the purpose of sabotage, the statement said, implicating them of accepting devote serious arson and procure explosives.Security officials informed Reuters the taking off packages at logistics depots in Europe were part of a trial run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.
Russia rejected this.Prosecutors did not specify whether the plans were aimed at air or ground transportation.Thomas Haldenwang, the head of Germanys domestic intelligence company, told a parliamentary committee in October that Germany had only directly avoided an airplane crash when an air cargo parcel caught fire.Authorities have actually alerted businesses of the risk, and logistics company DHL took steps to protect its network following several fires at its storage facility in Leipzig.Prosecutors in Germany stated the three thought agents had actually concurred with one or more Russian state stars to send out devices in the mail to recipients in Ukraine in a plot that was active up until at least the end of March 2025.
In order to assess possible paths, Vladyslav T.
submitted 2 test bundles in Cologne in late March including GPS trackers, they said.
The order was put by Yevhen B., who provided the contents of the bundles with the assistance of Daniil B., according to the declaration.