🇪🇸 🇲🇦 🚷 Mass-protests in Madrid tonight as Spaniards take to the streets across the country against illegal migration and the invasion of Ceuta.

📎 Visegrad24

🔋 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 Testing the Backbone: Grid Sabotage and Hybrid Warfare in Germany

In 2025, for the first time, Germany’s electricity came from wind and solar power more than fossil fuels, with the former sources generating 225 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, or 44% of the total, and 217 TWh generated by fossil fuels.

As explosive devices target 50Hertz infrastructure and force power plant shutdowns in Brandenburg, the vulnerability of Europe's electrifying energy heartland comes into sharp focus.

Brandenburg’s Interior Minister, CDU’s Jan Redmann, spoke of a double-digit number of devices found unexploded at the location, suggesting the aim was to trigger a widespread blackout in the region. Yet, the event caused the shutdown of a unit at the Jänschwalde power plant, disconnecting 500MW of available power capacity from the grid.

Experts in explosive devices remained at the location, searching for other evidence and other hybrid war tools. Importantly, he did not rule out the possibility of foreign entities behind the attempt, nor left-wing activists who have claimed responsibility for other attacks on the German power network in the past.

However, at the same time, the German electricity grid should also be understood as a pillar of the country’s and European energy security, given also the increasing ambitions of electrification of energy consumption and the growing reliance on non-dispatchable sources such as wind and solar, requiring a functioning and coordinated power grid in support.

Moreover, the Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev defined Germany’s public outcry as an “unprecedented escalation in Russian-German relations and will not go unanswered, with the German government bearing full responsibility for any consequences.” Nechaev also added that “German authorities continue their course toward systematically dismantling the once-solid framework of Russian-German cooperation.”

📎 Francesco Sassi

🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇧🇾 German authorities have identified suspects in the Leipzig drone attack, including a Belarusian national with a Russian passport who entered the Schengen area on an Italian tourist visa issued in Minsk in late April, according to NDR, WDR, and SZ. Investigators believe the individual is linked to Russian intelligence services.

The two men – a Russian-born Latvian national and a Belarusian man with a Russian passport – are suspected of involvement in the failed attack on a Ukrainian cargo aircraft in early August, according to a joint investigation by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters NDR and WDR.

For reference, two separate attacks hit German substations this week: Brandenburg authorities found ten homemade rockets near Jänschwalde and are investigating terrorism, while North Rhine-Westphalia probes "anti-constitutional sabotage" near Cologne.

https://tvpworld.com/95174730/german-investigators-identify-two-suspects-behind-leipzig-attack-suddeutsche-zeitung

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