A hideout was found in a forest near the border of Berlin and Brandenburg, reports “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. Law enforcement discovered it after receiving operational information. Pistols were hidden in the underground hideout.
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The weapons were taken, deactivated, and put back – waiting for someone to come pick them up
The German authorities did not publicly announce the discovery, and the investigation was taken over by the country’s state security and counterintelligence agencies, writes “Spiegel”. The weapons were taken from the hideout, damaged to make them unusable, and placed back. The hideout was then monitored for several months, but no one came to collect the weapons during that time.
The investigation is led by the Karlsruhe prosecutor’s office, the publication reports. It remains unclear from the text why the investigation is being conducted by law enforcement agencies in a city far from Berlin.
According to journalists, the investigation concerns “preparing a serious violent act that threatens the state.” “Spiegel” notes that the suspect in this case has already been detained in Romania.
According to the publication, investigators are examining the connection between this hideout and Russia’s sabotage campaign against Ukraine’s supply routes.
The German federal prosecutor’s office declined to comment on the publication’s information.
What happened before
In 2024, shipments sent from Lithuania caught fire in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Poland. The investigation’s conclusions state that Russia’s military intelligence (GRU) was involved in these attacks.
Additionally, in early August 2026, an unknown-origin drone with explosives and a detonator was found at Leipzig airport near a Ukrainian plane carrying ammunition. The German authorities did not officially accuse Russia of this incident. The country’s interior minister Alexander Dobrindt hinted at the possibility of foreign state involvement but did not specify which. The US intelligence, as reported by “The Wall Street Journal” citing sources, linked this drone to the Russian government.
In 2019, Russian special services officer Vadim Krasikov shot Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin with a pistol, reminds the portal “Agentstvo”. It is still unknown where V. Krasikov obtained the weapon at that time. Later, Vladimir Putin brought the killer back to Russia through a prisoner exchange.
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