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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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…
According to German media, German security officials suspected that a Russian military intelligence agent had been involved in the planning of an attempt to carry out a "multi-modal attack" using a drone bomb at Leipzig airport.
According to the German newspaper Felt Am Tsuntag, on Saturday, German security officials suspected a member of Russian military intelligence of being involved in an attempt to target the German airport of Leipzig with a car bomb last month.
According to a newspaper report, German security authorities have new findings about two behindmen of the attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport. As the "world on Sunday" writes, the men are known to the investigators by name. One of them is from Belarus, the other is a Russian citizen.
The German investigators suspect a member of the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) that he participated in the preparation of a "hybrid attack that involved a drone loaded with explosives at Leipzig airport in August, reported on Saturday the German daily Welt am Sonntag, taken over by AFP and Agerpres. According to the German newspaper, a Russian named Oleg Le., ...
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