German prosecutors charged two Ukrainians in a Russian-backed parcel bomb plot to attack postal and freight facilities across Europe in 2023.

In 2023, German prosecutors charged two Ukrainian men, Daniil B and Vladyslav T, with espionage related to a Russian plot aiming to bomb postal depots in Germany and Eastern Europe. The men sent GPS-tracked parcels to identify logistics routes for future packages intended to contain explosives designed to cause widespread destruction and undermine civilian security. A third Ukrainian, Yevhen B, extradited from Switzerland, was supervised from Moscow via a Mariupol intermediary. Similar plots emerged in Lithuania and Poland, including a Lithuanian cell accused of sending explosive packages to warehouses in Germany, the UK, and Poland, and a Russian-placed bomb on the Warsaw-Lublin railway narrowly averted disaster. These acts are part of a broader Russian sabotage campaign across Europe, increasingly using proxies contracted via encrypted messaging apps due to depleted Russian intelligence assets. The campaign demonstrates increased willingness by Russian intelligence to cause civilian harm.