{"id":565570,"date":"2026-08-05T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=565570"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:53:13","slug":"drone-carrying-explosives-found-near-ukrainian-aircraft-at-leipzig-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drone-carrying-explosives-found-near-ukrainian-aircraft-at-leipzig-airport","title":{"rendered":"Drone Carrying Explosives Found Near Ukrainian Aircraft at Leipzig Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Leipzig Airport suspended operations overnight on Aug. 5 after a drone was discovered, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/BILD_Russian\/31370\">Bild<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The suspicious object was found next to a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft. According to the media outlet, the drone was carrying an &#8220;unknown substance,&#8221; which may have been an explosive device with a detonator inside.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not ruled out the possibility of sabotage and are searching for the drone&#8217;s operator.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the overnight incident, several aircraft were diverted to other airports. One cargo plane was forced to abort its landing and go around. Shortly afterward, according to BILD, about 6 kilometers from the airport at an altitude of 400 meters, it collided with an as-yet unidentified object. The aircraft landed in Hanover, where minor damage to its nose section was discovered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565532\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-565532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-05_12-55-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-05_12-55-39.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-05_12-55-39-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-05_12-55-39-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-05_12-55-39-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-05_12-55-39-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leipzig Airport suspended operations overnight on Aug. 5 after a drone was discovered, Bild reported. The suspicious object was found next to a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft. According to the media outlet, the drone was carrying an &#8220;unknown substance,&#8221; which may have been an explosive device with a detonator inside. Police have not ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":565569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a73161ba378d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drone Carrying Explosives Found Near Ukrainian Aircraft at Leipzig Airport"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}