Loses its conflict with russia. G7 Foreign Ministers are meeting now on the italian island of capri to discuss ukraines urgent appeal for more air defence support and how to use frozen russian assets to assist kyiv. Earlier, i spoke to our security correspondent gordon corera. Potentially, a significant series of arrests by German Authorities yesterday. Theyre certainly suggesting that today, with prosecutors arresting two men, one of those, it appears, had been spending some time carrying out reconnaissance of a Military Facilities. The second man is thought to have assisted him and then, in turn, they are thought to have been in contact with another person linked with russian intelligence services. Some details are emerging about what they may have been looking at. These are Military Facilities inside germany but the suggestion is this wasnt just spying, collecting intelligence that is something that happens normally but they were considering, particularly that one individual sabotag
Of plotting an explosion and being in contact with the russian intelligence service. One of them had been photographing potential Military Targets in germany, including us Military Facilities which assist ukraine. The arrests came as ukraines Prime Minister warned the bbc there will be a third world war if ukraine loses its conflict with russia. G7 Foreign Ministers are meeting now on the italian island of capri to discuss ukraines urgent appeal for more air defence support and how to use frozen russian assets to assist kyiv. Lets cross live now to our security correspondent, gordon corera. Tells more about what the authorities are saying about the plot, the details, the target . Potentially a significant series of arrests by German Authorities yesterday. They are certainly suggesting that today, with prosecutors arresting two men, one of those it appears had been spending some time carrying out reconnaissance of Military Facilities. The second man is thought to have assisted him, and
again, this is significant we ve seen some evidence in the past of russian intelligence carrying out sabotage activities in the past. there are reports that russian military intelligence, the gru, blew up an arms depot in the czech republic about a decade ago. but carrying out something like this in germany would certainly be significant. the suggestion is it s all part of attempts to undermine european support for the effort of ukraine in fighting russia. ukraine s prime minister is in washington to urge the us congress to pass a long stalled foreign aid bill, which includes $61 billion earmarked for kyiv. the house of representatives is set to vote on the package this saturday. in an interview in washington, ukraine s prime minister told my colleague sumi somas kanda about the risks of a russian victory in ukraine. the global system of security will be destroyed at all, and all the world will need to find and will need to look in for a new system of security.
support for the effort of ukraine in fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom. fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you for fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you for the - fighting russia. gordon there in the newsroom, thank you for the latest | newsroom, thank you for the latest on those arrests. ukraine s prime minister is in washington to urge the us congress to pass a long stalled foreign aid bill which include $61 billion earmarked for kyiv. the house of representatives is set to vote on the package this saturday. in an interview in washington, ukraine s prime minister told my colleague sumi somas kanda about the risks of a russian victory in ukraine. the global system of security will be destroyed at all, and all the world will need to find and will need to look in for a new system of security. or there will be many conf