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“Was it Russia?” Is the Leipzig drone attack part of a hybrid war?

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DW Berlin Briefing - Inside German politics

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Aug 14, 2026

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Summary

DW’s Michaela Küfner asks security analyst Hans-Jakob Schindler, disinformation expert Julia Smirnova and DW Riga Bureau Chief Juri Rescheto to piece together what we know about the drone incident at Leipzig airport. How exposed is Germany to what the government admits are “daily attacks in a hybrid war”? And what, if anything, can we make of the awkward silence from German officials on Russia?