Drone hysteria, Kiev gunfights, and aviation threats: RT stories that shaped the week

RT’s essential stories of the past seven days also included a warning from Washington over Ukraine’s energy war and a gathering of Eurasian powers in Bishkek Europe sees Russian drones everywhere Germany found a new Russian threat this week, accusing Russia of staging a drone incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport in August, where an explosives-laden UAV was reportedly found between Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft. Before returning to Germany, RT India reports on a case of Ukrainian mercenaries who launched a drone at a passenger jet in Myanmar, and are now languishing in an Indian jail.

Berlin launched a raft of anti-Russian measures, including closing Moscow’s consulate in Bonn, ending the lease of the Russian House cultural center in Berlin, tightening border controls for Russian nationals, and drawing up another sanctions list. But as these stories usually go, Berlin presented no actual proof that Russia had anything to do with the drone. Moscow dismisses ‘fabricated’ German drone incident claims “Where is the evidence? Well, they planted the evidence,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, suggesting that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz needs the…