The suspects, named as Daniil B. and Vladyslav T., are accused of working together with a third suspect named as Yevhen B. to send two parcels from Cologne to Ukraine equipped with GPS trackers.
"The purpose of this action was to investigate shipping routes and transport procedures at the parcel service provider and later to send parcels containing incendiary devices," the prosecutors said in a statement.
Orders for the mission had allegedly been placed by a Russian intelligence service via intermediaries in the port city of Mariupol, which was seized by Russian forces in May 2022.
"Such parcels were to be ignited in Germany or elsewhere on their way to parts of Ukraine not occupied by Russia and cause as much damage as possible in order to undermine the population's sense of security," the prosecutors said.
The three men had also agreed to take part in these deliveries, they said.
Vladyslav T. and Daniil B., who were arrested in May in the German cities of Cologne and Konstanz respectively, have been charged with espionage for the purpose of sabotage and conspiracy to commit aggravated arson.
Yevhen B., who was detained in the Swiss canton of Thurgau in May, was extradited to Germany in December and will also soon be charged, the prosecutors said.
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Germany, Kyiv's second-biggest military backer after the United States, has been on high alert for sabotage plots directed from Moscow since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
An Armenian, a Ukrainian and a Russian went on trial in December, accused of tailing a former soldier for Ukraine on behalf of a Russian intelligence service for a possible assassination plot.
A Munich court in October sentenced a German-Russian national to six years in jail for spying for Moscow and plotting sabotage acts to undermine Germany's support for Ukraine.
German media have reported that Western intelligence agencies also suspect Russia of being behind a plot that led to the explosion of parcels at two DHL logistics facilities in Germany and Britain in July 2024.
Russia has denied being behind such actions.
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