A German court convicted a Ukrainian man on Tuesday over what prosecutors described as a plot linked to Russian intelligence to detonate parcels in Europe designed to cause damage and undermine public confidence in security.Three Ukrainians were involved in sending two packages with GPS trackers and spare auto parts from Germany to Ukraine using a Ukrainian parcel service in an operation initiated by an unnamed Russian state entity, the Higher Regional Court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart said in a statement.For the Russian organisers of the plot, these shipments were designed to scope out potential opportunities for future acts of sabotage, the court said.A 30-year-old was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for acting as an agent for the purposes of sabotage. The two other defendants were acquitted due to a lack of evidence that they were knowingly involved in a plot to commit such attacks.The Russian embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.European governments have accused Moscow of a sustained campaign of sabotage attacks as part of a "hybrid war" targeting countries that supported Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Russia has repeatedly called such allegations groundless.