Overview

• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said he will put integrated counter‑drone protection on December’s interior‑ministers agenda, seeking to merge federal and state competencies and align police with military systems.
• Bundeswehr chief Karsten Broyer said loitering munitions will be trialed before year‑end and noted that defending against UAVs will likely require deploying drones against drones.
• Germany’s Federal Criminal Police recorded 270 drone incidents at military and critical infrastructure sites in the first quarter of 2025, according to Bild.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted and destroyed 114 Ukrainian aircraft‑type drones overnight across ten regions and over the Azov and Black Seas.
• The ministry reported three Ukrainian UAV command posts destroyed in the Donetsk region and said FPV operators rammed two Ukrainian drones on the Kramatorsk–Druzhkovka axis.