A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany.
The two Ukrainians were killed at a shopping centre in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria.
They were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Shortly after the killings on Saturday evening, the police arrested a 57-year-old Russian on suspicion of murder, German news agency DPA reported.
The names of the victims and the suspect were not released in line with German privacy rules. It is not clear if the three men knew each other.
More than one million Ukrainian refugees came to Germany after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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The majority arrived in the first three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Germany’s federal statistical office.
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By October 2022, Ukrainian citizens were the second largest foreign population in Germany after Turkish nationals.
Germany is also home to a significant Russian immigrant community and 2.5 million Russians of German ancestry who mostly moved to the country after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
