Dresden and Steyr protests Jäger warns of Russia risk

Oct 5

AUF1 places weekend peace protests against a worsening Russia–West confrontation, briefly recalling Merz's Kyiv aid pledge and Zakharova's nuclear warning. It shows Martin Jäger saying Russia is escalating in Ukraine and warning that Germany risks a violent conflict with Russia. At Dresden's German Unity Day march it reports several thousand participants and, citing eyewitnesses, an attempted police interruption over alleged noise violations. Two unidentified participants reject being sent to war. Organizer Marcus Fuchs criticizes division and weaker mobilization in western Germany while saying military screening has made more people reconsider. After brief Gera and Berlin references, AUF1 reports several hundred people at Steyr's 300th weekly city walk on Sunday, its shift from COVID-policy opposition to peace advocacy, and registration of further walks through 2030. Attendance, motives, police conduct and forecasts retain their attribution.

At the public Berlin oversight hearing, BND president Martin Jäger warns that confrontation with Russia has become more dangerous and that Germany risks violent conflict. BfV president Sinan Selen describes threats of sabotage and killings against transport, defense industry and military infrastructure, including possible civilian victims. In Tagesthemen's live clarification, Kornmeier says the chiefs nevertheless gave no indication that Russia plans an attack on NATO territory. These are attributed risk assessments, not a confirmed impending attack. Tagesschau's earlier October 5 package adds Martina Rosenberg calling the incidents concrete attacks on Germany, with an inaudible word left uncertain, and links Russia's targeting of Germany to German support for Ukraine. Jäger's Leipzig example and Selen's espionage/sabotage/assassination warning remain attributed official assessments. Tagesthemen's express absence of an indication of a planned NATO-territory attack remains intact. At the October 5 Berlin PKGr hearing, Jäger, Rosenberg and Selen describe concrete threats to Germany and Russian attempts to intimidate society and disrupt Ukraine support, transport, defence production and military infrastructure. Jäger calls the confrontation an undeclared shadow war; Selen describes expansion rather than replacement of espionage, sabotage, low-level agents and possible organized-crime methods. Rosenberg reports persistent military-site drone activity but says troops remain vigilant rather than demonstrably intimidated. In questioning, the chiefs advocate credible deterrence, public resilience and international cooperation. These are their attributed threat assessments and operational explanations, not confirmation of every suspected drone’s origin or an announced state of defence.