{"id":3654,"date":"2025-06-12T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2025-06-14T10:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:34:04","slug":"envoy-to-ukraine-to-become-germanys-top-spy-spiegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/envoy-to-ukraine-to-become-germanys-top-spy-spiegel\/","title":{"rendered":"Envoy to Ukraine to become Germany\u2019s top spy \u2013 Spiegel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under Martin Jager, the Federal Intelligence Service will get more funding and leeway in conducting espionage, the media outlet claims<\/strong><\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s ambassador to Ukraine, Martin Jager, will soon be appointed as the head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Der Spiegel has claimed. Under the new leadership, the agency is expected to get a boost in funding, as well as \u201cmore flexibility\u201d<\/em> in conducting overseas espionage operations, the media outlet reported.<\/p>\n

Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Berlin has been one of Kiev\u2019s top backers in terms of weapons deliveries. Under the new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Germany has doubled down on these policies, saying that Ukraine could receive long-range Taurus cruise missiles and pledging to help Kiev produce its own long-range weapons.<\/p>\n

In its article from Wednesday, Der Spiegel suggested that Merz had already made the decision to appoint Jager as the next BND president.<\/p>\n

According to the publication, the BND will also see a major reorganization and an expansion of its intelligence gathering activities.<\/p>\n

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German leaders \u2018pushing\u2019 country into war with Russia \u2013 Moscow<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Der Spiegel described Jager as \u201cone of the most experienced crisis diplomats in the German Foreign Office,\u201d<\/em> citing his tenures as the German ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq before his appointment as Berlin\u2019s envoy in Kiev in 2023.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Ukrainian media last year, the German diplomat insisted that \u201cUkraine\u2019s future is in NATO,\u201d<\/em> with a \u201cclear\u201d<\/em> path to full membership once the conflict with Russia is over.<\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly described Kiev\u2019s aspirations to join the military bloc as one of the primary reasons behind the escalation of hostilities in February 2022. In its outline for a potential peace agreement, the Kremlin has emphasized that Ukraine must adopt permanent neutrality.<\/p>\n

In a separate interview with Ukrainian media in 2023, Jager stated that Germany\u2019s goal was to help Kiev \u201cwin this war,\u201d<\/em> which, according to the envoy, meant the \u201ccomplete restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine.\u201d<\/em> When asked to clarify, he said that Kiev should, among other things, regain control over Crimea, which voted to join Russia in a 2014 referendum.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, incumbent BND chief Bruno Kahl claimed that Russia could attack NATO in the coming years, as \u201cthere are people in Moscow who no longer believe that NATO\u2019s Article 5 would be upheld,\u201d<\/em> especially with respect to the Baltic States.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin, for its part, has consistently denied harboring any aggressive plans toward the military bloc.<\/p>\n

Commenting on Berlin\u2019s increasing antagonistic moves of late, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned in late May that \u201cGermany is sliding down the same slippery slope it already followed a couple of times in the last century \u2013 down toward its own collapse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Martin Jager, the Federal Intelligence Service will get more funding and leeway in conducting espionage, the media outlet claims Germany\u2019s ambassador to Ukraine, Martin Jager, will soon be appointed as the head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Der Spiegel has claimed. Under the new leadership, the agency is expected to get a boost…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3658,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}