Leipzig/Halle Airport

Yeah, but they are becoming quite scary.

If you d- you know, think Germany in, in Leipzig Airport, that they found this armed drone.

Uh, Russia has denied all responsibility, but Russia is known for plausible deniability.

Remember just before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it wasn't going to invade.

You do one thing without thinking that it's gonna lead to full-scale war, but that one thing provokes a response.

So let's, let's take a look at what's going on right now in Poland and Germany, where Russian drones have penetrated Polish airspace in, in, at the Leipzig Airport just a month ago, right? Where they had to shut down the airport in Germany.

One drone hits one plane, and if that plane has any people on it [laughs], we're in a entirely different universe.

No European government could afford to stand by and do nothing.

And that's, uh, where our security services, intelligence agencies, together with the US, Europeans, and others, are paying a lot of attention and making sure that, uh, those actions don't succeed.

But, uh, as we have seen in Leipzig Airport where Russian agents tried to attack with an armed drone, and whereas they didn't succeed this time, but it can lead to casualties also in Europe or in the US for that matter, as we saw from the DOJ's indictment.

So we take it seriously, but militarily, we support Ukraine.

We do what is necessary for Russia do not succeed in its blatant aggression against Ukraine.

Last week, NATO jets downed a suspected Russian drone over Lithuania.

In Germany, there was an armed drone incident at Leipzig Airport, and Denmark recently reported a Russian warship firing flares at one of its military helicopters.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Russia could launch an attack with drones or missiles on NATO territory in the coming months to test NATO's Article Five, which states that an attack on one member of the alliance is an attack on them all.

Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London.

Last week, NATO jets downed a suspected Russian drone over Lithuania.

In Germany, there was an armed drone incident at Leipzig Airport.

And Denmark recently reported a Russian warship firing flares at one of its military helicopters.

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Just look at some of the things that have happened.

We've spoken about before that drone, attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport.

We also had just last week, flares were fired by a Russian tanker towards Danish helicopters, army helicopters.

So it is a concern.

We saw the statements that came from Donald Tusk just a few weeks ago.

Leipzig airport was attacked.

The Germans said the Russians were behind it.

We are in an era of hybrid warfare.

How? Please explain.

Well, because Russia has ballistic missiles that can reach this country.

They've shown through their drone attacks, which, I mean, clearly they were behind many of these drone attacks on Poland, on Leipzig Airport in Germany.

Was it Amsterdam airport? There was another one.

Anybody who thinks that these incidents on NATO territory are just some kind of aberration don't understand this is a hybrid war campaign by the Russians against NATO.

Germany even announced that there was an attack by a Russian drone at Leipzig airport.

An Italian aircraft, part of the defense of Lithuania, shot down drones that had crossed the line into Lithuania.

Both Romania, NATO member, as well as neighboring Moldova, have both said they've had frequent drone intercursions by the Russians.