Known GRU Operative Planned Leipzig Airport Drone Attack, Report Reveals
Investigators say the plot used three drones and 1.8 kilograms of Semtex, and the device failed to detonate beside a Ukrainian cargo plane.
- On September 12, Welt reported confidential investigative files link one suspect in the August 4 incident at Leipzig to Russia's GRU military intelligence service.
- German investigators identified the suspects as Russian citizen Oleg and Belarusian citizen Andrei, who allegedly targeted Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft at the hub with an explosives-laden drone.
- Investigative reports indicate Oleg traveled to Germany before departing through Berlin Brandenburg Airport for Serbia, while explosives potentially reached the country concealed inside trucks traveling through Bulgaria and Serbia.
- Following the formal attribution of the attempted attack to Russia on September 1, the German government announced the closure of the consulate general in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin, while increasing pressure on Russia's so-called "shadow fleet."
- Believed to be in Russia, the suspect reportedly had GRU ties that security services knew about upon entry, though they did not place him under surveillance.
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Leipzig was a warning shot. Here’s what real deterrence against Kremlin terror would look like
The wave of Russian state terrorism now breaking over Europe is quite different from the leftwing Baader-Meinhof group of the 1970s. It is part of a big plan to break Nato, yet Germany (and Spain, France, and Belgium) is not taking this seriously. This sends a clear message to the Kremlin: keep attacking us, writes Edward Lucas.
According to an official, they did not begin monitoring him because authorities had limited resources and did not expect him to be preparing an imminent attack.
The interview with Rossia1 of the exponent of the extreme right of Germany, for parliamentary years in the Bundestag, today active between social and TV in Russian language, which relaunches point by point the Putinian propaganda, from the North Stream to the failed attack in Leipzig
It has already been reported that a DNA trace has linked another suspect to Finland.
Russia’s spy network inside NATO? German intel knew of Leipzig suspect. . . Then they let him walk?
Germany's Leipzig drone investigation has taken a dramatic turn, with investigators reportedly tracing preparations for an alleged attack to Russian military intelligence. According to Welt am Sonntag, a suspected GRU employee organised preparations targeting Leipzig-Halle Airport before entering Germany through Turkey and later flying to Serbia. The most striking revelation is that German intelligence reportedly knew about the suspect's possibl…
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