German Officials Find 2 Guns Near Berlin, Tying Cache to Russian Agents
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Updated · DW (English) · Aug 21
German Officials Find 2 Guns Near Berlin, Tying Cache to Russian Agents
3 articles · Updated · DW (English) · Aug 21
Summary
Two live firearms were found in a professionally concealed woodland cache in Brandenburg near Berlin, German media reported, with investigators treating it as a covert weapons depot.
BfV intelligence points to the site being a Russian “dead letterbox” — a secret drop known only to sender and recipient — stocked for agents tasked with “kinetic operations” or other physical attacks.
Sinan Selen, a senior domestic intelligence official, had warned months earlier that Russia could mount assassinations, with possible targets including defense executives, exiled opposition figures and Ukraine supporters.
The Russian embassy did not answer requests for comment; it has previously dismissed similar allegations as conspiracy theories.