"Was it Russia?" Is the Leipzig drone attack part of a hybrid war? | Berlin Briefing Podcast

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Did Russia just send a drone laden with Semtex explosives to attack Ukrainian transport planes at the German supply hub Leipzig Airport? More than a week after the attack, the German government still won’t use the “R” word for Russia when asked about the source of the attack. But it is increasingly sounding like a ‘not yet’. DW’s Michaela Küfner asks security analyst Hans-Jakob Schindler, disinformation expert Julia Smirnova and DW Moscow bureau chief-in-exile Juri Rescheto to piece together what we know. How exposed is Germany to what the government admits are “daily attacks in a hybrid war”? And what can and should we read into the awkward official silence on Russia? #dwgermanpolitics 00:00 Was it Russia? Evidence so far 02:19 Politics of attribution 03:51 Baltic states sound alarms 07:09 Germany’s daily hybrid threat 09:01 Russia’s election playbook 12:01 How hybrid warfare works 15:07 Is Germany prepared? 18:30 Lessons from the Baltics 21:21 A NATO problem? 25:45 Fight

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