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Germany says its warships were sabotaged

Vice Adm. Jan Christian Kaack said the sabotage had involved "more than one unit" and warned of attempted break-ins at German naval bases.

Kaack's comments follow a report published on Monday by the local outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung, which said German police were investigating an incident at a Hamburg shipyard where several dozen kilograms of metal shavings were dumped into a corvette-class vessel's engine system. Naval Vessels Lürssen, the company responsible for building the ships in Hamburg, told Agence France-Presse that the Emden had recently completed a "successful sea trial." Ukraine's allies have accused Russia of waging a "hybrid war" against the West, with reports of an attempted assassination against a defense contractor CEO and the growing assessment that Russia-linked oil tankers damaged undersea infrastructure cables in the Baltic Sea.

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