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German authorities are currently investigating unknown Russian entities over suspicion that they were planning attacks in Germany, the country's public broadcaster NDR and Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday.

According to reports, a cache containing several firearms was discovered on the outskirts of Berlin in late summer last year. Authorities believe that the weapons were intended for Russian agents who were plotting attacks in the country.

The outlets said that German security agencies have been warning for months that Russian state actors are secretly preparing attacks in Germany, adding that one individual involved in those plots has already been arrested in Romania.

It is a secret drop site for materials and information, known only to the sender and recipient and referred to among agents as a "dead letterbox."

German security authorities now assume that the weapons were left for agents who, acting on behalf of Moscow, were to carry out so-called "kinetic operations" or acts of physical violence.

The head of the domestic intelligence service, Sinan Selen, warned months ago that Russia could carry out assassinations. Possible targets, he said, include defence industry managers, opposition figures in exile and supporters of Ukraine.

A request for comment sent to the Russian embassy by NDR, WDR and SZ has so far gone unanswered.

In the past, similar accusations have been dismissed by the Russian embassy as conspiracy theories.