Overview
- The Federal Prosecutor’s Office named Yevhen B. as the accused and identified co-suspects Vladyslav T. and Daniil B., with the indictment filed on January 22 before the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart.
- Investigators allege the trio sent activated GPS trackers in parcels from Cologne to Ukraine in late March 2025 to map logistics routes.
- Prosecutors say the mapped routes were intended for shipments of incendiary devices designed to ignite in Germany or along the route in Ukraine.
- Yevhen B. was arrested in Switzerland on May 13, 2025, and extradited to Germany on December 23, 2025; the other two suspects were detained in Cologne and Konstanz and remain in custody.
- Authorities state the operation was directed by a Russian intelligence service via intermediaries in Mariupol, and they link the case to wider European probes, including Poland’s January charges and scrutiny of the 2024 DHL hub fire in Leipzig.