In Berlin and Brandenburg: Drone smuggler and Russian spy arrested | News

Königs Wusterhausen (Brandenburg) – A 58-year-old Russian and a 55-year-old German were arrested in the districts of Dahme-Spreewald and Märkisch-Oderland, who are said to have supported pro-Russian separatists from the so-called “Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” in eastern Ukraine for years.

“Suren A. and Falko H. have held prominent positions in an association since 2016 that transports supplies and medical devices, but also of Drones in the Donbass for the benefit of militiamen from the ‘Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics’,” the Federal Prosecutor’s Office wrote in a statement. “The accused are strongly suspected of supporting foreign terrorist organizations… in several cases.”

The “People’s Republics” are pro-Russian troops that fought against the Ukrainian army from 2014 and took parts of Donbas under their control. You are in Germany as terrorist group classified. After Putin’s Attack on Ukraine They were integrated into the Russian armed forces.

Orders from separatists

According to the federal prosecutor’s office, Suren A. “directed club funds of over 14,000 euros to the ‘People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk’. He also financed the transport of goods for the militias there.” According to findings from Germany’s top prosecutors, Falko A. traveled several times to hold talks with representatives of the separatists “and accepted delivery orders. He also regularly participated in the distribution of goods on site.” As early as May 2025, there were searches in Brandenburg and Berlin in connection with the investigation.

Almost at the same time as the suspected terrorist supporters were arrested Berlin an arrest warrant was executed against the German-Ukrainian Ilona W. for secret service agent activity. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office: “Ilona W. has had intelligence contacts with the Russian Embassy in Berlin since November 2023 at the latest. Her contact person is for a Russian one intelligence employed. On various occasions, the accused provided him with, among other things, information relating to the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.”

She compiled dossiers on participants in “high-profile political events” and “inquired about the locations of the Defense industrydrone tests and planned deliveries of drones to Ukraine”.

Ilona W. used contacts with Bundeswehr insiders

The suspected spy is said to have also used contacts with former Defense Ministry employees “with whom she was personally acquainted.” According to dpa information from military circles, these were a recently retired Bundeswehr staff officer and a high-ranking civil servant who had left the force more than 15 years ago. She is also being investigated. But they remained at large.

The Federal Criminal Police Office’s investigations against the woman began after information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), the secret service of the agency Bundeswehr.