Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has indicted two Ukrainian nationals, aged 23 and 24, on charges of attempted sabotage and complicity in attempted sabotage, in connection with an alleged Russian-linked plot targeting a Ukrainian courier company operating in Bucharest.
The two suspects, now placed in pre-trial detention, are accused of planting two incendiary parcels in October at the Bucharest premises of Nova Post, Ukraine's largest courier service.
DIICOT investigators said the attack posed a direct threat to public safety. "There was a real risk that the site could have been destroyed by fire, potentially endangering national security, given that the office is located on the ground floor of a seven-storey residential building in a central, densely populated area of Bucharest," the directorate said. If convicted, the accused face up to ten years in prison.
Coordinated arrests across Eastern Europe
The October arrests in Romania were carried out in coordination with Polish authorities, who detained six suspects in a parallel operation in Poland. The cross-border scope of the operation points to what Romanian and regional security services have described as a sustained Russian campaign of hybrid aggression targeting Eastern European countries.
Romania's Intelligence Service (SRI) said at the time that "Romania, along with other Eastern European states such as Poland and Moldova, continues to be the target of Russian aggression … whose main objective is to reduce support for Ukraine."
Nova Post as a strategic target
Nova Post serves as a critical logistical link between Ukrainians living abroad and those remaining inside the country during the war. The targeting of the company's Bucharest office fits a pattern that Romanian and regional security officials have described as deliberate attacks on infrastructure sustaining Ukraine's war effort and diaspora connections.
