Dobrindt said that last October Germany’s home intelligence company grew to become conscious of a potential weapons cache in the woods on the outskirts of Berlin.

Officials positioned the stash with the assist of the Berlin State police, and discovered two handguns and ammunition.

The German safety authorities suspect the weapons and ammunition discovered were meant for use in attacks.

Reports in German every day newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the public broadcasters NDR and WDR say the cache was to facilitate focused killings on behalf of Moscow.

Dobrindt said after the weapons were rendered inoperable, the weapons cache was positioned under surveillance for months but nobody was seen approaching it.

“This case demonstrates that we are operating under a high threat level,” Dobrindt said.

The minister said prosecutors were investigating a suspect in Romania, who is being held in connection with deliberate parcel bomb attacks there. He said this would be taken into account when it came to a potential extradition.

He described the suspect as a “low-level agent”, and declined to disclose his nationality.

Several comparable operatives had been detained so far this yr, he said, including one particular person from Kazakhstan.

The investigation follows earlier accusations of Russian attacks on German soil.

In 2024, German political figures reacted angrily to a CNN report that Russia had plotted to kill the head of Germany’s largest arms firm Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger.

In 2021 a German court docket jailed Russian nationwide Vadim Krasikov for life for a homicide in a Berlin park and said it had been ordered by Moscow. Krasikov was later freed in a prisoner swap.