Europeans are rattled. A bomb-laden drone attacked a Ukrainian cargo plane in the eastern German city of Leipzig, but it failed to go off. In another incident, German authorities revealed that they had thwarted an assassination plot targeting the CEO of one of the country’s leading drone-manufacturing companies. Outside Rome, a titanic blast destroyed an ammunition factory whose products are used by Ukrainian forces—just a few days after another explosion hit a plant in Bulgaria whose owner was previously reported to have been targeted by Russian security services. And a Spanish fighter jet on a NATO air-policing mission shot down a drone that crossed into Romanian airspace. A NATO spokesperson said that the drone was probably of Russian origin.
And that was just the first half of August.
Europeans are rattled. A bomb-laden drone attacked a Ukrainian cargo plane in the eastern German city of Leipzig, but it failed to go off. In another incident, German authorities revealed that they had thwarted an assassination plot targeting the CEO of one of the country’s leading drone-manufacturing companies. Outside Rome, a titanic blast destroyed an ammunition factory whose products are used by Ukrainian forces—just a few days after another explosion hit a plant in Bulgaria whose owner was previously reported to have been targeted by Russian security services. And a Spanish fighter jet on a NATO air-policing mission shot down a drone that crossed into Romanian airspace. A NATO spokesperson said that the drone was probably of Russian origin.
