{"id":720,"date":"2026-10-22T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:58:52","slug":"germany-russian-spy-arrest-merz-intensive-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"GERMANY NABS A SUSPECTED RUSSIAN SPY, AND MERZ SAYS MORE ARE OUT THERE! | Tanks, ammo and explosives were allegedly on the shopping list, and the chancellor warns this won\u2019t be the last bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE SPIES ARE BUSY! Germany is the target of <strong>\u201cintensive\u201d<\/strong> espionage, Chancellor <strong>Friedrich Merz<\/strong> said Thursday after a Ukrainian national was arrested on suspicion of spying for <strong>Russia<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmx28y5e04ggo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors identified the suspect only as <strong>Vadym Y.<\/strong>, under German privacy law. They say he had been in contact with a Russian intelligence service through an intermediary since at least <strong>July 2025<\/strong>, and collected information \u201con the production of armoured vehicles, ammunition, and explosives.\u201d He is due before an investigating judge on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Merz called the bust a \u201csuccess\u201d but didn\u2019t sugarcoat it: \u201clet us not delude ourselves &#8211; the activities of Russian intelligence services in Germany remain at a consistently high level.\u201d And: \u201cWe will likely see more such cases in the coming months and years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a year of it. A woman was arrested in Berlin in January over alleged work for an officer at the Russian embassy. And earlier this month former BND spy chief <strong>August Hanning<\/strong> was arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason, with investigators not saying which foreign powers were involved.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is one of Europe\u2019s leading weapons suppliers to Ukraine, and it has accused Russia of launching an explosives-laden drone at Leipzig\/Halle Airport in September. Putin claims Germany planted the evidence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmx28y5e04ggo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanks, ammo and explosives were allegedly on the shopping list, and the chancellor warns this won\u2019t be the last bust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-germany-spy-1022.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}