EU defence ministers gather in Wicklow this morning to kick off a week of informal yet high-level gatherings, following a summer marked by a surge in security incidents across the continent.
At centre-stage this morning is the expectation, as our correspondent Shona Murray reports from the ground in Ireland, that Berlin will formally blame Russia for a suspected drone attack targeting a Ukrainian cargo aircraft carrying military supplies at Leipzig/Halle airport in early August. Reports suggest an explosives-laden drone, apparently intended to detonate, was found near the aircraft.
