German authorities arrested two men suspected of spying for Russia and membership of a terror group planning acts of sabotage, in a case the interior minister called “particularly serious.”
The Federal Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe named the pair of German-Russian citizens as Dieter S. and Alexander J. and said the alleged members of a pro-Kremlin group known as the “Donetsk People’s Republic” were taken into custody Wednesday in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth.
Dieter S. had been in contact with an individual connected to a Russian intelligence service since October last year about “possible sabotage actions” against military and industrial ...