Two Belarussian Men Held in Germany Over Alleged Sabotage Plot

Two Belarussian men have been arrested in Germany for allegedly conspiring to commit sabotage against infrastructure “on behalf of a foreign government or organisation”, prosecutors said Wednesday. The two men, aged 39 and 50, are suspected of planning to set fire to a “building or piece of critical infrastructure” near the southern city of Nuremberg in return for payment, prosecutors in Munich told AFP.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. According to the Spiegel newspaper, the men are suspected of acting on behalf of Russia and were plotting a fire close to a train track and power lines. The paper said the men were also involved in a fire on September 14 near an arms factory in the central Romanian city of Brasov which the government there also blamed on Russia. Prosecutors in Munich confirmed to AFP that the two men were the subject of extradition warrants from Romania but did not specify what for. Romania’s office for organised crime said earlier this week that two suspects in the case had been “remanded in custody in Germany” and that a third suspect was at large in Poland. However on Wednesday Polish police announced that a Ukrainian man had been arrested in Warsaw on the basis of a European arrest warrant issued by Romania. The man referred to by Polish police as “Artem S.” is “suspected of having taken part in preparing acts of sabotage aimed at setting fire to a strategically important arms and munitions factory (...) on September 14”. Other Topics of Interest Dutch PM Says Europe Won’t Return to Russian Gas Amid US Peace Talks Rob Jetten rejected reported US proposals to revive Russian energy exports to Europe, calling instead for tougher sanctions to pressure Moscow. Germany and Romania, like many other EU and NATO countries, are facing what they describe as a campaign of “hybrid” sabotage and interference conducted by the Kremlin, aimed at weakening their support for Ukraine, which has been at war with Russia since February 2022. Berlin blames Moscow for an attempted August attack in which an explosive-laden drone was discovered at Leipzig airport, a key transport hub for military goods destined for Ukraine.