Suspected Russian agents accused of plans to sabotage German military facilities | DW News
German prosecutors on Thursday said police in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth had arrested two men on suspicion of spying for Russia.
The two are accused, among other things, of acting as agents for sabotage purposes and of preparing explosives, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office announced in Karlsruhe.
Germany also summoned Russia's ambassador in Berlin after the arrests were announced.
"We will not allow Putin to bring his terror to Germany," Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
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#germany #russia #spy
Surely that's an act of war
Which part ?
everyone in the world knows Russia is hostile
chinese PLA has a LOT more agents working in germany .
@@dfsdh432v9 they own Russia so it makes sense Russia is a puppet of 🇨🇳
@@dfsdh432v9They are not blowing up stuff though
There are ex-Stasi in the security apparatus and they are allowed to be there. That never made much sense to me.
nonsense.
@@coriolan1963 No. It is not nonsense. There are more Russian spies in Germany today than there were Soviet spies back during the cold war.
they have 70+ years: Nature is settling this problem.
Yeah their old
@@coriolan1963 There are more Russian spies in Germany now than there were during the cold war.
Taurus Taurus Taurus
Is that the game changer weapon? 🤔
So many weapons given but nothing changed in front line.
@@Mr.Clownensky in sufficient quantities it is. That's why terrorussians are so scared of it.
If Germany transfers the Taurus to Ukraine, then Russia has the right to transfer anti-ship missiles to the Houthis.🤔
@@chamarachanThat means it works.
After he serves his sentence in Germany, can we please extradite him to Ukraine? Please?
By the time he completes his sentence, Ukraine will have reverted to being a part of Russia again.
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available Wont happen
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1AvailableStrange Ukraine has NEVER been a part of Russia 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@0_paz It will happen. You cant stop the bear.
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Availableit was part of demented ussr. russia is no better, Ukraine must be free
Life imprisonment.
With anschliessende Sicherheitsverwahrung
A US spy got 15 years and he passed on secrets for decades. This guy will get less than 10 years
Where is your freedom and democratic spirit?
@@satriojumeneng7055 When you disrespect reciprocity, you deserve twice the result upon yourself that you deliver to someone else.
@@dweb I don't see any difference between your country and the most autocratic country in the world. What a hypocrite!
Taurus is the best response! Zeit für Taurus!
what about zircon or kinshall?
@@michaelfaraday8391What about them.?
Are they faster than Gillette Mach 3?@@michaelfaraday8391
@@michaelfaraday8391 Patriot. ;) And maybe soon more VLS ashore. Also, why should Russia start a war with NATO over that? They can't attack Germany and single it out. And this would force the US congress not just to release the actual bill regarding Ukraine aid, but increase it indefinitely, because they would be an actual party to the war now.
@@flixri726do you think the Russians are worried about the US aid to Ukraine? Why should they worry about the inevitable? As long as nato won’t and can’t step foot in Ukraine the Russians don’t care about the amount of aid the Ukrainians receive. Didn’t you hear what Peskov said today about the possibility of Congress agreeing to send the aid to Ukraine? By the way what has patriot gotten to do with zircon and Kinshall? Or do you think we believe in the Ukrainians PR of having intercepted them? 😂 if you even do critical thinking about their latest claim you wouldn’t even say this! If they had less than a minute to get siren notice of an incoming missiles how would they intercept it? According to them the time the missiles reached there coincided with their siren warning yet because of PR marketing they claim to have intercepted it even though the target was flattened!
They should look over in America too. GOP being pro-Russian never made any sense.
Trump is a great Putin lover
Putin is right...Uke is taking over US Congress
Is being Pro USA - as in no foreign spending, only domestic - being Pro Russian? 🤔🤷
@@Fistfury42 It is because when the USA became a global super power it lost the privilege of being isolationist and spending only internally.
@@krisvalenti4141We can change our mind.
Not only underestimated by Germany but practically all countries... time to not only wake up but also act according real understanding
Indeed Germany has vastly underestimated this. Would it surprise anyone if it is an intricate and persistent network rivaling Austria's.
Germany's Russian and Chinese networks are way bigger than the networks in Austria. Every russian and Chinese national who works in a Western corporation and university is a spy.
nope, and probably much much bigger, given the 4M residents of DE (mostly citizens i believe) who are proficient in Russian language & thus society, familiarity etc.
Russian ooeratives in Germany is not surprising. If they can influence US Congress members, they can do almost anything anywhere else.
They do it in the netherlands and belium too. But they are hiding as right wing politicians
Perhaps you would like to explain to us why Russia annexing land from a state that they agreed to honor the sovereignty of decades ago is good for the world?
Maybe coz it refused to adhere to the Minsk agreements and maintain its neutrality? I don't know, I'm just guessing.
@@vsevolodsalnikov6332And that justifies a full blown assault on Kiev… how?
@@KJ-in4gz это защита союзника, конечно. ДНР и ЛНР были признаны Российской Федерацией, следовательно являлись частично признанными республиками, следовательно СВО является полностью обоснованной операцией. Юридически это даже не война... по сути у нас сейчас был бы мир, если бы не вмешательство запада, Зеленский подписал бы мирный догорор еще в 22м году...
What about Israel in Palestine 😢
Zuviele Russen hier in Europa 😢
I think german intelligence is underestimated.
I agree. Whatever else the Internet memes might say, they seem to be extremely compentent in that respect.
why You said that German Intelligence underestimated? all of You say that becuase You 2 are Pro Russians right? and You 2 underestimated German Intelligence., Russians sending Their Spies into Germany but still., German Intelligence already know about Russian Spies inside in Germany
why You said that German Intel underestimted?
You 2 said that maybe because You 2 are Pro Russians? LOL
German Intel already know that Russian Spies are already inside in Germany., dont underestimated Them
Cancel their citizenship
Ask all russians to hand one of the 2 passports in. Germans dont have 2 passports. Its democracy to choose
Is anyone really surprised? Now we understand Germany's reluctance to act in its own interests
Maybe you begin with G. Schroeder, if there is a talk about Pootyphiles??
He was just an opportunist, wasn't he?
@manfredconnor You may call him an opportunist, an influencer or anything. But he has been promoting Rus interests with amazing energy, and, which is important, gets considerable money for that. Some people use the word "trait0r" for a situation like this.
Schroeder was the first to completely sell out his country to the Russians, but he was not the last.
@@user-vx5vo3gs2w I seriously never like the guy. He brought us the Leiharbeit too. However, I honestly, do not know much about what he has done, since he went out of office. I know that he got a lot of money from them, but back in these days, the attitude was to open up toward Russia and to have them open up and "become western". We wanted to normalize trade with them and bring them into the fold. Make an old foe to a friend. It is just that they never changed their attitudes about human rights, freedom, democracy, etc. They never opened up and in the end the tried to rip off German and western companies.
@manfredconnor Seriously speaking, all current consequences of Schroeder/Merkel's "Ost-politik" were absolutely predictable. Putin himself sent a clear message at the Munich conference in 2007, and many times used natural gas as a weapon even before that. I do not believe heads of state could be naive to such an extent. That is simply impossible. So, there's something else.
If you capture spy means he is a bad spy.
😂 ага 😂
For those that think that Russia and China want a beautiful multipolar world like “ Alice in the wonder land “ wake up you’re dreaming.
As compared to western plantation? 😅
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@kwalelalipimile3894 Yes. It's really horrible what US bombers and artillery have done to places like Warsaw and Vilnius.
yeah better trust the germans cause throughout history They were such a trustworthy state right?
China now is militarily stronger than it’s ever been in its history. It’s showing its true colors now. Historical China was a cultural and mercantilist power. Its military strength was always limited. We are seeing China’s true face especially in WPS etc. China is not benign by any means and I curse the fools who think so.
BOTS ⬇
Yep, many Russ-bots here
Can confirm I'm a russian bot
@@Khar-ocheBots are also people without opinions of their own
@@Khar-oche Do Russ-bots "beep-boop" or do they make a different noise?
@@Khar-ocheWell that’s good confirming it. But tell me why all RuZZian bots are so pathetic?
No logical fate.
*Kyiv
@@MachFiveFalcon Many countries spell it Kiev even if Kyiv" is the preferred spelling by Ukrainian authorities and international organizations.
Authoritarian regimes are mutually exclusive with democracies. Keep that in mind and see how true it is.
Not so much in the western, how many western nations have a political person in power for twenty years . Their is a strong system to rid a country of one person who is on the level of Putin, xi , Kim, ayatollah, people who enslave the every day thoughts and ideas of a free man
There are no true democracies, but your cards are better here in the West than in Russia. That is for certain.
Be careful who you think is your Saviour, history is full of fools and fooled people.
Ask Mekkel who is eavesdropping champion
Considering all the Russian Germans, the old Stasi personal and all the SPD "peace"-supporters I would assume significant.
Can anyone on this chat think or do the math? The Berlin wall fell in 1998 - 26 years ago...if these two so-called spies were Stasi they would have been approximately 14 years old at the time!!!!
Not even close to USA Intel operations
This is scary
It's The News 🤷
Why? Russia already have tiny Mike and Olaf?
Pretty sure Putin has many EU politicians in his pocket. Why don't they ever talk about that? :D
Not Olaf. No way. Half American government, for sure. 😅😅😅
@@TheTwangKings Olaf is actually not russian name but Kievan Rus / Swedish name :D Many russian popular names are adoptions from greeks and roman empire as well. Alexander / Alex / "Sass" (nickname) is one popular example.
Yup.
Wow lots of bots
Pooteen said: who are behind this man ???😂😢😮😅😊
Not to bright.
Would these "Russian agents" in Germany have a strong Russian accent when speaking German? 👀🙄
😅😅😅😅😅
From top to bottom
Considering it was soviet about 35 years ago I'd say pretty high
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,. But I have promises to keep,. And miles to go before I sleep,. And miles to go before I sleep." ; - )
Article 5.
He said it's a million Russian German people
Ватника Kremlinbots are in full damage-control mode.
True😂😂
Western troll 🤣🤣
Russian analyst about Russian spies... Nice. the plot could have been stopped there.
Scholz and "Kanzleramtsminister" Schmidt ate in on it
half of germany was under russian control for 60 years, even with the reunification that network is so deep rooted it never went away.
I think it would be quite unwise to underestimate the potential of such information. A lot of this regards elements of large human, military and manufacturing infrastructure. Such things cannot be easily or rapidly changed to invalidate the utility value of that already gathered and transferred intelligence. With this information, "the next guy" might not need to scout, they could potentially jump straight to the sabotage. Providing far less opportunity for German or other ally/partner intelligence to discover them before they are able to act. That would be a fairly bad case scenario outcome, but it's far from unrealistic.
They sound more like mercenaries than spys. In fact catching these mercenaries could have been supported by Russia so they can spread fear. The media supports arms sales, security, maybe an EU army. Its concerning that greedy people could be trying to make it happen but also its concerning not to have an EU army in world like this.
Ojere... iro ti poju
You are a bit paranoid there. I think Germany and Russia might have genuine ties, like gas. Moreover, even Katarina and Maria (Putin's real daughters) were born in Dresden.
What is the explanation for both the right and the left being aligned on their inhumanity iver Ukraine?
Technically any espionage is by a criminal regime. It’s not Russia only that’s the only criminal espionage. We have luminaries in the west who happen to be at the top in this game. Are they also criminal? No.
This is called double standards. Western hypocrisy German UK French ... so typical
Fish and chips DW NEWS
Bla bla bla
The government should require special identification papers to be carried by all Russians living or visiting in Germany
i hope these suspect are not falsely accused or falsely framed for personal rivalry. somehow i have lost my trust on german allegation.
German judiciary is pretty robust.
Russian bot detected
Why? Germany is one of the few states with any moral integrity these days. I would argue that they are less corrupt than the US. They are certainly way better than Russia.
@@halberderdier8073 what are the evidences so far presented by anybody other than news in media. may be two friends were joking over situation, and their phone being tapped without permission, just on suspicion and they are spies now. treat your sick citizen first.
Isn't this expert who was humiliated by Jai Shankar. He is an absolute bum. When Germany fails and it is not about how but when DW and analysts like these will play a key part. German political class in power with Olag schulz, Annalena Boerback, have completely lost the plot and taking Germany down.
269 people aboard a Boeing 747-230B shot down by Russian Sukhoi Su-15 for vering off course into Russian territory happend to be American nuclear sub & space shuttle both lining up with the Korean flaged passenger airline @ the time recon telemetry
America DID ruin my life and my German family allowed it to happen, didn't rescue or save me. It was the Russians who rescued my step father and provided for me great memories and experiences!!
Does the German Aristocracy shop at Aldi Süd or Nord?
Lol
@noyb-gi7nflol
Bei Rewe...
No superheat here, please.
LIDL
Who tapped German PM's cell phone?
People who know that Russia is very well organized.
😂 абвер кто ш ещё? 😂
How Was Nord stream pipelines doing there? It seems you aren't worried about it.
It is no longer needed. We do not need Russin gas any longer. And as country we won't make the mistake of depending on Russian gas again.
You can weep a bit, ivan
@@wildwurfler2782 hmmm last time i checked you're suffering from deep recision, and for god sakes stop begging.
German is too weak to confront Biden
@@RobertJackson437 Recession ? Lol. Half of that "reccession" is prices going back to normal after Covid. And we don't beg we are the third biggest economy in the world after US and China. We don't need Russia if we don't want to. It took as about half a year to shed our dependence on Russian gas.
😂 please also check how many US agents in Germany as well.
😂 ну эти хоть запад-запад 😂
Not big, there's a hard filtering of Russian citizens when it comes to any public or economically important sphere.
Half the size of the Chinese spy
Sounding very camp like soon with the suspicion of people pf ruusian blood .. yet again 😅
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Just a countinue a grate answer a our war in a Russia a came in a document paper a grate and better day in a our realation a especially in a un and our nato
Who would win, two western nations armies or two amateur Russian spies... Let's not take any chances... lol
охота на ведьм
Happy my ancestor on my mothers side left Germany for the states over 200 years ago .
Any Due citizen person needs to be looked at with care cause most of the time they care more about country of origin…good example are Chinese due citizen.
Haha lots of ruzzian influencers commenting here
I can't fathom the logic of dual citizenship. A mistress can't have two masters.
you just described the majority of the journalist sitting behind that news desk.
Oh the horror of having both a Dutch and a German passport.
@@militant_pacifist Is bigamy legal in Germany or the Netherlands? People should make a choice. Nations still matter.
Ok … y’all doing anything about the nord stream pipeline yet?
че вы ноете в комментариях хахаха как посылать против россии оружие так можно, а как у вас будет то то взрываться так сразу заплакали хахах
Russia definitely has ambitions to conquest EU.because they had began making preparations on military and intelligence, the directly conflict between EU and Russia will outbreak any time as the ambiguity buffer zone has already disappeared.
Lol They can't even beat Ukraine, which has no airforce or navy They'd last a few hours against NATO even without the US
@@toi_techno lol
@@toi_technoRussia underestimated Ukraine's response based on how it went in 2014 with Crimea. They had actual intelligence of past operations in Ukrainian territory and they expected to have an easy go of it again. They probably wish they hadn't underestimated the threat. With lives on the line, you cannot rely on an expectation of your enemies incompetence.
@@toi_techno We can't even properly supply Ukraine with ammunition. What are you talking about?
@@toi_techno😂 40+ countries armed Ukraine if you give those weapons to any country thy will become top 10-15 easily now west stopped giving supplies to Ukraine comediansky crying for weapons
Cui bono?, Cui prodest?
Capricorn means CROCODILE please share to all for save the world 🌎. Because of Saturn transit to Capricorn CORONA happened. No one reason for disease.
The Poland connection in the assassination plot is interesting. First, it's not just greed, you will also find in Poland some who are so opposed to what they see as a decadent west that they see Putin as a potential savior. The fact that they are much fewer in number makes them more dangerous. First because this fuels their radicalization. Second, because they are more likely to be able to penetrate Ukrainian defenses without raising suspicion.
After this incident, I don’t think so
Russia.criminals.😮
Ideological subversion has been active for decades as seen in the comments.
Yes, too many people lapping up the NATO-line.
True, but the moskabots' farm is a recent years' thing.
@@univeropa3363 What is the NATO-line? "We will keep you from becoming a Soviet satellite state." or nowadays " ..... a Russian client-state?" No, that is the truth.
@@manfredconnor3194 No, it's the: "we'll encircle Russia at any cost"-line of thinking, believing that they are not provoking.
@@univeropa3363 Nobody "encricled" Russia. Countries have a RIGHT to decide which side they want to be on. Ukraine wanted to be neutral until Russia started messing with them in 2014. Then they decided they would rather belong to the West. That is their choice Putin invaded them. NATO did not invade Russia. Putin invaded Georgia, Chechnya and the Ukraine. He helped Lukashenko crush the protests of the people in Belarius. He organized a regime change in Kyrgyzstan. He wants to resubjugate all the old soviet Satellite countries. He is a bully, a tyrant and a mafiosi bandit king! The Russian people will be better off without him!
Kremlin sources told me Justas send his regards to agent gardener, agent liver sausage and agent 360
What would BND do to people who are MOSSAD assets and have loyalties to Tel Aviv?
recruit?
Hopefully people of Russian descent will not become discriminated against because of a few.
Not discriminated but watched by citizens. This is not on!!!
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😂 ну послушать про свою же контору всегда любопытно 😂
Even though Istanbul is a European city and 17 million people live in it, I still and persistently condemn the fact that my sky NEW weather forecasts are shown in the middle east region as a city. Leave it not separated. 😂
What are you talking about
Istanbul?🤔 Oh that Asian City? 😊Yes it's nice been there! 🙏
😎😎😎
Rest of Europe: Go Germany Go! We are with you. Germany (In the middle of war): Where are our allies? Rest of Europe: We fooled you thrice 😂
You get paid for writing that mince?
@@dlkdyscot Yes. In the interest of Germany.
Pathetic trolling
@@marisabenson1222 chill out.
So pathetic 🤡
Surely you mean the occupying forces of Germany's bases
Germans occupy Germany's bases. The US has some bases that are in Germany, what of it? I think they pay rent or have some sort of agreement now.
if germany was not an american colony "Suspected american agents accused of plans to sabotage German gas pipeline"
Proof?
The Russian gas company blew it up to eliminate their contractual requirements to Germany which would have cost them a significant sum of money.
@@bretedwards2899 sure zelensky
@@bretedwards2899 You dont even have to be pro russian to realize what really happened
The Soviet Union does not exist any longer. Are you actually believing the Soviet Union is attacking you? Fun fact guys, the Soviet Union no longer exists. Did you miss the last 80 years? Are you suffering from a blackout memory? Who told you these things?
"The collapse of the Soviet Union was the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century" - Vladimir Valdimirovich Putin.
Poor German people. They know exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline, and yet there's nothing they can do about it. It's like you know exactly your husband is cheating with another woman but you can't divorce him because he is just too rich & powerful. You have no choice but to live together with him in the same house & sleep together in the same bed. Just imagine the feeling of someone who lives in that kind of reality 😢😢😢
We don't have your psychosis so no, Germans don't know who blew up the NS pipelines. Some imagine they do, but they also imagined to know how vaccines work and how the stock market works and what not. I kinda tend to not trust their judgement.
German and Russian Rammstein fans can literally stop this war from happening.
How so?
😂😂😂 oh grow up!!!
The network is so strong that they even know how many stitches are there in Olaf Scholz undies 😂😂😂 Да здравствует Россия 🇷🇺 Ура!
The likely story: Russian pass by, cool tank Germans 🥴 vodka Germans: they stealing out tech, he planting bomb 🫨
So many western bots 😂
Все глупо и похоже на фантазию. Что может быть секретного для России в Германии сейчас. Мы и так все знаем. Желающих в Германии работать на Россию достаточно было всегда. России вы неинтересны. Фантазёры
Russia is interested in any place that it thinks is useful. Their goal is to drive a wedge between allies and they infiltrate where there are cracks. Like you said Germany has cracks and is a leaky sieve.
Вы провалили проверку английского языка. Делать вид, что в Германии нет ничего интересного для России, довольно глупо.
😂 ну в германии эссена больше 😂
Russia has the right to defend itself .
You mean Ukraine!
Broken record
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤪
... from common sense. Totally true!
If ru. ever happens to get attacked. On their own, generally recognised and undisputed territory. However Transnistr. Donb. South Ossetia and Abkhazia ain't part of that. (And arguably Karelia, Königsberg and the Kuril Islands should not be included either.)
Slava Russiya 👾
Bot.
@@marco_0599cry more nafo bot😂😂
@@veljkoivetic1903jebes Rusiju
bolshevic Bot
Vene Tibla!
One more reason why we shouldn't be involved.
Those spies were measuring the new bigger Berlin Wall.
One more reason you should be investigated......
@@paulhargreaves1497 Aha, and what do you expect to be found?
@@univeropa3363a lack of general comprehension
@@arrowodd7695 Sure. You believe Ukraine can win?
Try to keep your nose out of Russia's business or this will just be the start of the end of humanity as we know it people
blah blah blah.
It's actually the other way around, but nice try
Ah its Atomic Thursday even on you tube.
Freedom loving men will never bend their knee to these dictators. You don't believe me ? THE FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE ARE VERY SLOW TO ANGER, BUT ONCE THERE ONLY THE FORCE OF GOD WILL HOLD THEM BACK
Obviously Russia was sticking its nose were it doesn't belong.
What is the best interest for Germany to fight Russia or Trade and get cheap energy and so on. A Germany Ukriane ? 🤷♂️ Will Germany risk a some sort of war with Russia why 🤯 what do Germany get. Moral value 🤣😅, is it so bad if Russia annex some territory ?
Nobody needs Russian gas and oil, renewables are the future. Putin has to be stopped.
Bots, bots everywhere 🥱
Is it so bad Russia keeps annexing territory? 😂😂😂 Bots nowadays suppose to have some kind of AI...