Eichwede questions threats Ukraine, elections and China

Oct 5

In Eichwede’s complete first-round slot, Jäger calls Ukraine support a core German interest and rejects the idea that ending that war would end Russia’s broader revisionist confrontation. He outlines conditional security, instability, refugee and cost consequences of a Ukrainian defeat. Selen says Russian actors including Storm-1516 and Matryoshka monitored and manipulated state and local electoral discourse, discredited people and election processes, and used AI, bots and wider dissemination ecosystems; he describes faster detection as necessary. Responding to questions about Chinese cars and connected products, he warns of personal-data leakage, state access, misuse and possible shutdown risks, without proving that particular products are spies. He also describes Chinese cyber and insider espionage risks to research, urges protection of critical knowledge and cooperation with research institutions, and explicitly rejects abandoning cooperation altogether.

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.