Germany to shoot down drones near military installations

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Germany’s cabinet has decided to authorise the army to shoot down suspicious drones seen near military sites or other critical infrastructure.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said: “Especially since Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, we have observed drones being used more and more frequently, posing a growing challenge to the police and their existing technology. “

It is suspected that Russia has introduced a “war of shadows” in western countries that support Ukraine, an accusation that denies.

This has included alleged attempts to blow up international airliners, attack infrastructure – or interfere with democratic elections.

“I can only prove that Russia is planning acts of air terrorism, not only against Poland, but also against airlines around the world,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday.

He did not give details, but his appears to be a confirmation of a New York Times report that US President Joe Biden had warned Putin about the alleged plans.

In November, Polish prosecutors said a series of package fires by courier companies in Europe were attempts to sabotage flights to the United States and Canada through equipment.

Tusk presenting the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw, one day after NATO announced a new project to develop the surveillance of the ships in the Baltic Sea after the cables underneath were broken or cut last year.

Putin introduced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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Recently there have been several unidentified drones on army bases.

On Sunday afternoon at least 10 drones of this type were detected on the Manching Air Base, near the city of Ingolstadt, according to the German police.

Last month, there were sightings at Manching and nearby Neuburg an der Donau.

There were also drones at the U. S. air base in Ramstein and a neighboring commercial domain in the North Sea.

In his statement, Interior Minister Faeser said that “espionage or sabotage is regularly considered as an imaginable reason. “

According to existing rules, the German army can only force drones to remove drones or land, but also the chimney caution shots so that it happens.

Under new proposals, which still want parliamentary approval, infantrymen can shoot down a drone if they think it is the only way to deal with the danger it poses “opposed to people’s lives or opposed to a critical status quo. “

In November, Polish prosecutors said that a series of layout corporations in Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom were dry runs to sabotage flights to the United States and Canada.

Western security officials were part of a campaign orchestrated by the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU.

Russia denies that these are acts of sabotage.

But it is suspected to have been behind other attacks on warehouses and railway networks in EU member states this year, including in Sweden and in the Czech Republic.

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