The recent failed attack in Leipzig fuels fear of a Russian escalation
What happened at Leipzig-Halle airport on August 5 has acted as a shock to the German security services and their NATO allies. The failed attack by a drone carrying the powerful plastic explosive Semtex against a Ukrainian cargo plane, the huge Antonov AN-124, has been interpreted as a very disturbing qualitative leap, the possible beginning of another dimension of Russia’s hybrid war against Europe, the shift from indirect harassment to direct confrontation.