MUNICH: A Munich court on Thursday sentenced a German-Russian national to six years jail for spying for Moscow and plotting sabotage acts to undermine Germany’s support for Ukraine.
The suspect, named as Dieter Schmidt, was found guilty of helping to plan attacks on railway lines and military infrastructure in Germany, allegedly on behalf of Russian intelligence.
German authorities have repeatedly raised the alarm about such agents, supposedly recruited via social media to carry out tasks such as taking photos of sensitive sites, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Prosecutors accused Schmidt of scouting targets for potential attacks, including US military bases, a loading station and a tool manufacturing company.
He allegedly took photos and videos of sites that he passed on to a Russian intelligence contact.
