Welt: bus driver may have knocked down drone found near Ukrainian aircraft in Leipzig

Two things were clear when chancellor Friedrich Merz halted his holidays on Friday for an emergency top-secret meeting.

German bus driver kicked Semtex drone out of the air

The BBC has seen details of the investigation into a plot in 2024 in which Russian-linked proxies in Poland and Lithuania not only handled drones and explosives but also delivered them to Germany.

The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday, then kicked out at it in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.