In statements to investigators, Vladyslav D. said he was paid more than $2,000 (\u00a31,487) in cryptocurrency for his efforts. His motive was clear.<\/p>\n
And what about the Leipzig case?<\/p>\n
Few details about the drone bomb are yet public.<\/p>\n
Some German sources report that the explosive was Semtex, which contains RDX – the explosive found in the food cans in a Lithuanian cemetery.<\/p>\n
We do not know how much the drone found at the airport was carrying and the physical damage may have been limited.<\/p>\n
“The drone casing, if it was metal, might have put a hole in the plane but just a blast wave probably would just have dented it unless they put some fragmentation inside,” explosives expert Professor Jackie Akhavan of Cranfield University explained.<\/p>\n
But if Russia was behind this, its aim was more likely to sow fear.<\/p>\n
Andrei Soldatov, an expert on Russia’s intelligence agencies, said it “makes sense” to suspect Moscow, pointing to a clear pattern of sabotage and hostile activity, from arson attacks on facilities supporting Ukraine to drones over sensitive sites in Europe.<\/p>\n
Germany is one of Kyiv’s biggest suppliers of military aid.<\/p>\n
“It’s a message. You get something like that [bomb] into one of the biggest European airports and you send the message that, ‘Guys, we can do that. Remember’,” Soldatov explained.<\/p>\n
“You hint to the adversary that you might cause a really big problem: that tomorrow might be more serious.”<\/p>\n
And the potential motive? Moscow is under intense pressure from Ukraine’s long-scale drone attacks, he said, and the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has been humiliated, repeatedly”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In statements to investigators, Vladyslav D. said he was paid more than $2,000 (\u00a31,487) in cryptocurrency for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-730388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}