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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Germany poised to identify suspect in Leipzig drone attack on Ukrainian plane

A line of police officers walk across a field at an airport with aircraft in the distance
Police officers at Leipzig airport search for a drone that may be connected to a suspected attack on 7 August. Photograph: Sebastian Willnow/DPA/AP

The German government is imminently expected to announce who it believes was behind a suspected drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane earlier this month and to outline its response to the incident in coordination with its European and Nato partners.

The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, told the public broadcaster ARD in an interview on Sunday evening: “We are in the process of concluding the investigations; we have reached a broad agreement within the federal government on how we will respond, and we will make this clear in the coming days. It won’t take much longer.”

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