“Was it Russia?” Is the Leipzig drone attack part of a hybrid war? | Berlin Briefing Podcast
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 Fighting back in cyberspace
28:30 Hybrid war is already here
32:12 New security reality
For more of DW’s reporting on the issues discussed in this episode, please see the links below.
How Baltic states are responding to Russia’s hybrid warfare
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