Revealed: Putin's bid to hit German airport with explosive-laden drone linked to blitz on Britain

A drone packed with Semtex slammed into the wing of a stationary Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport late on August 4 but failed to detonate.

Craig Munro | Senior Politics Reporter Published August 20, 2026 4:49pm Updated August 20, 2026 4:50pm A picture of the drone uploaded by Romania’s defence minister (Picture: Radu Miruţă) A marine drone packed with explosives was destroyed by fighter jets in the Black Sea a few hundred metres from an under-construction

A Romanian F-16 fighter jet destroyed an explosives-laden marine drone near the strategic Neptun Deep gas project on Thursday, as Bucharest blamed Russia for the incident. The attack comes amid growing drone activity along NATO’s eastern flank and renewed Russian strikes on Ukraine.