Factual Summary: German authorities were investigating two suspected attacks on electricity substations in Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia after incidents on Tuesday. Improvised explosives damaged cables at a Preilack site in Brandenburg, prompting a terrorism probe, while investigators said conductive material may have caused a short-circuit at a Bergheim substation. RWE said five generating units at two coal-fired plants were disrupted, though customers did not suffer widespread outages. The attacks came as Germany accused Russia of involvement in an attempted explosive-laden drone attack at Leipzig airport and announced measures including closing Russia’s Bonn consulate. Russia rejected the allegations as unsubstantiated and summoned Germany’s charge d’affaires on September 2.
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The headline accurately reflects both the suspected substation attacks and Russia's diplomatic response. Reporting is attributed to police, state officials, RWE, German authorities, Russia's Foreign Ministry, and a named newspaper consortium, while the article preserves uncertainty about perpetrators and possible links.