Overview
- On Thursday the German government publicly blamed Russia for a failed explosive drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport and announced the closure of the Russian consulate in Bonn as one of its countermeasures.
- Investigators say they have identified two suspects in the Leipzig case—a man born in Russia holding a Latvian passport and a man from Belarus with a Russian passport—and inquiries into their roles are ongoing.
- Police are treating recent incidents at the Turnow-Preilack substation in South Brandenburg and an Umspannwerk in Bergheim as likely coordinated sabotage after launch devices and pyrotechnics were found and a claim letter was submitted for examination.
- Bavarian prosecutors charged two people after a midnight arson attack near Munich that targeted a construction site close to defence-sector offices, with investigators treating the act as politically motivated.
- Ministers and industry groups are pressing for clearer legal rights for critical-infrastructure operators to use cameras and drone-defence systems, a push that now collides with rising AfD support in eastern state polls and could have consequences for Chancellor Friedrich Merz.