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Suspicious packages sent to Ukrainian missions trace back to Germany: Kyiv

A series of suspicious packages sent to Ukrainian diplomatic missions within the past week all bore the address of a Tesla car dealership in Germany and were usually sent from post offices without video surveillance, Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.

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A total of 31 Ukrainian missions in 15 countries had received suspicious packages, starting with a small letter bomb that injured an employee of Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Facebook calling it “a campaign of terror against Ukrainian diplomats”.

In Spain, more packages with explosives were sent to, among others, to the U.S. embassy and the Spanish Prime Minister.

The Ukrainian diplomatic mission later began receiving packages containing gruesome contents such as animal eyes, leading to them being termed “bloody packages”.

According to Minister Kuleba, the sender or senders of the packages made sure not to leave traces of their DNA on the packages.

“This, in particular, indicates the professional level of implementation,” wrote the Ukrainian diplomat.

The German trail

“All the envelopes have the same sender address: the Tesla car dealership in the German town of Sindelfingen. Usually, the shipment was made from post offices that were not equipped with video surveillance systems,” Kuleba wrote.

German authorities and electric carmaker Tesla’s dealership in Sindelfingen in southern Germany, did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Considering the professionalism employed by whoever is sending the packages to conceal their identity, it seems unlikely that the address would be anything but a red herring.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk appears to have a chequered record when it comes to his activism with the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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Soon thereafter, Musk caused more alarm in Kyiv, when he said SpaceX could not indefinitely fund its Starlink internet services, but a day later he backtracked following massive backlash, saying SpaceX would continue to fund Starlink in Ukraine, mentioning the need for “good deeds”.

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