A German higher regional court in Stuttgart convicted a 30-year-old Ukrainian man for involvement in a Russian sabotage plot. The man was sentenced to one year and three months in prison. Two other Ukrainian men, aged 22 and 25, were acquitted as the court could not prove their knowledge of the sabotage plan. The three men had sent packages with GPS trackers from Germany to Ukraine which aimed to reveal transport routes to Russian secret services and were planning to dispatch packages designed to ignite and cause damage in Germany or en route to parts of Ukraine not occupied by Russia. The plan was discovered before implementation. The court found the convicted man guilty of spying for the purposes of sabotage. The prosecution sought longer sentences, and both sides have the right to appeal. This incident is part of a broader pattern of Russian-linked sabotage and hybrid warfare threats in Europe, including exploding parcels from Lithuania detonated in Germany, Poland, and Britain, and recently, a drone equipped with explosives found near a Ukrainian cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport in Germany.

A German higher regional court in Stuttgart convicted a 30-year-old Ukrainian man for involvement in a Russian sabotage plot. The man was sentenced to one year and three months in prison. Two other Ukrainian men, aged 22 and 25, were acquitted as the court could not prove their knowledge of the sabotage plan. The three men had sent packages with GPS trackers from Germany to Ukraine which aimed to reveal transport routes to Russian secret services and were planning to dispatch packages designed to ignite and cause damage in Germany or en route to parts of Ukraine not occupied by Russia. The plan was discovered before implementation. The court found the convicted man guilty of spying for the purposes of sabotage. The prosecution sought longer sentences, and both sides have the right to appeal. This incident is part of a broader pattern of Russian-linked sabotage and hybrid warfare threats in Europe, including exploding parcels from Lithuania detonated in Germany, Poland, and Britain, and recently, a drone equipped with explosives found near a Ukrainian cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport in Germany.