Suspicious drones fly over a military training area on the border of Bavaria and Hesse
Created: 03/10/2022 16:59
By: Caspar Hoffmann
The military training area near Wildflecken near the border with Hesse has been spied on with drones.
Ukrainian soldiers probably also train there.
Wildflecken/Frankfurt – An explosive incident occurred at the Bundeswehr military training area near Wildflecken in Lower Franconia: in the night from Friday to Saturday (October 1st), suspicious drones flew over the area near the border with Hesse.
This is reported
by Business Insider
.
Accordingly, Ukrainian soldiers are probably also being trained there on Western weapon systems.
According to the report, the Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on whether the overflights are an espionage operation by the Russian secret services.
The overflights have been registered, it is said.
The police were also informed and started the investigation.
These continued, as reported by fr.de.
An armored vehicle of the type Dingo of the Bundeswehr stands on a military training area: Germany has promised to deliver 50 vehicles of this type to Ukraine.
© Philipp Schulze/dpa
Military training area not far from the border with Hesse: training of Ukrainian soldiers
According to Business Insider
, the Bundeswehr is probably also training Ukrainian soldiers at the military training area near Wildflecken, not far from the border with Hesse
- on armored Dingo vehicles.
The federal government has promised to deliver 50 vehicles of this type to Ukraine.
At the end of August, Russian secret services are said to have tried to spy on the training of Ukrainian soldiers on western weapon systems for the Ukraine war.
Der Spiegel
reported on this at the time
.
The military counter-intelligence service noticed suspicious vehicles in the vicinity of the Bundeswehr bases in Idar-Oberstein in Rhineland-Palatinate and Grafenwoehr in Bavaria, from which the access roads to the barracks were probably observed.
In Idar-Oberstein, the Bundeswehr trained Ukrainian soldiers on the Panzerhaubitze 2000, in Grafenwoehr Americans and Ukrainians trained on western artillery systems.
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