Prosecutors claim that a German citizen assisted Russia in obtaining chemicals for weapons

On Tuesday, Germany's federal public prosecutor said that a German person had been charged with assisting a Russian intelligence service in obtaining chemicals for the creation of weapons of mass devastation.

According to the report, the suspect, known as Alexander S., ran a trading firm in the eastern German state of Saxony that sold chemicals worth $1.13 million to a front company run by Russian intelligence officers since 2017....