At least since November 2023, the suspect repeatedly provided her contact with “information regarding the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine,” the German prosecutor's office said. The citizen of Ukraine and Germany is accused of, among others, contact with an intermediary from the Russian embassy in Germany working for Russian intelligence.
What charges was brought against the detained woman?
Since when was a woman supposed to spy for the Russians?
What information was the woman supposed to convey?
Why did the woman help the agent from the Russian embassy?
The woman allegedly collected information about participants of “important political events” in Berlin, as well as “data on the location of the arms industry, drone tests and planned deliveries of drones to Ukraine.”. For this purpose, she contacted, among others, with former employees of the German Ministry of Defense whom she knew from the past.
The detainee was also allegedly helping an agent from the Russian embassy to participate in political events in Berlin under a false name. Its goal was to establish contacts important for the services in the German capital.
As the dpa news agency found out, the woman had been living in Germany for decades. She was recently supposed to be employed in marketing. As security sources told the agency, it had long been known that she had pro-Russian involvement.
The German prosecutor's office announced earlier on Wednesday the arrest of two men in Brandenburg who are suspected of supporting pro-Russian separatists from the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and the so-called Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine. The detained had, among others, deliver drones.
