Overview
- The federal government announced Tuesday that it holds Russia responsible for the attempted explosives‑laden drone attack near Ukrainian cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle and said it will close the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin.
- Investigators say they have identified two men as suspects in the Leipzig case through DNA, telecommunications and travel‑data matches, but authorities have not publicly arrested anyone and warn the suspects may be outside Germany.
- Police and prosecutors are treating two near‑simultaneous incidents at high‑voltage substations — Turnow‑Preilack in Brandenburg and Bergheim near Cologne — as possible deliberate sabotage and have opened terrorism‑ and verfassungsfeindliche‑sabotage probes.
- At the Bergheim site officers recovered six launch devices built to hoist conductive material over power lines and found pyrotechnic traces near the Brandenburg site, and forensic teams are checking DNA and mobile‑phone data to link scenes and actors.
- Berlin also approved a short‑term, security‑vetted Taliban technical delegation to help Afghan consular work and speed deportations, a politically sensitive move that, together with the security incidents, is sharpening pre‑election debate and demands for clearer public evidence.