Germany opened a counter-drone centre against hybrid attacks. The same day, a Russian intelligence agent got fifteen months he had already served

A court in Stuttgart gave a one-off agent fifteen months he had already served and acquitted two others. On the same day Germany opened a counter-drone centre.

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Nemecko otvorilo protidronové centrum proti hybridným útokom. V ten istý deň dostal agent ruskej rozviedky pätnásť mesiacov, ktoré si už odsedel

Súd v Stuttgarte dal jednorazovému agentovi pätnásť mesiacov, ktoré si už odsedel, a dvoch oslobodil. Nemecko v ten istý deň otvorilo protidronové…

22.8.2026

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Whether federal prosecutors charge anyone over the drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport and whether they name who ordered it.
Whether prosecutors appeal the two acquittals on points of law (a German Revision) to the Federal Court of Justice.
When the remaining two pillars — the federal police's mobile unit and the joint federal-state counter-drone centre — actually start working, and whether the question of who may shoot a drone down is settled.
Whether the announced reform of Germany's intelligence services grants powers specifically for hybrid cases.
Whether foreign components turn up in further Russian weapons and whether the EU's autumn sanctions package responds.

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Germany opened a counter-drone centre against hybrid attacks. The same day, a Russian intelligence agent got fifteen months he had already served

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