Germany to shoot down drones near army sites

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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.

A statement from Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that, “especially since [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, we have seen that drones are being used more and more frequently, which poses an increasing challenge for the police and their current technology”.

Russia is suspected of launching a “shadow war” against Western countries supporting Ukraine – a charge it denies.

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

“I can only verify that Russia has planned acts of aviation terrorism, only opposed to Poland but opposed to airlines around the world,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday.

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

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

Tusk presenting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw, a day after NATO announced a new project to develop surveillance of ships in the Baltic Sea after critical undersea cables broke or were 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.

At least 10 such drones had been seen flying above Manching Air Base near the city of Ingolstadt on Sunday evening, German police said.

Last month, sightings close to Manchesing and Neuburg and Der Donau.

The drones have also been at the US Air Base. UU. In Ramstein and in a nearby commercial domain in the North Sea.

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

Under existing rules, the German army can only police to force drones away or land, but also to obtain precautionary plans to get there.

Under the new proposals, which still require parliamentary approval, infantrymen can shoot down a drone if they are the only way to deal with the danger it poses “to people’s lives or to a critical installation. “

In November, Polish prosecutors said that a series of parcel fires targeting courier companies in Poland, Germany and the UK were dry runs aimed at sabotaging flights to the US and Canada.

Western security officials believe that they were part of an orchestrated campaign by Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.

Russia denies being behind acts of sabotage.

But other attacks on warehouses and rail networks are suspected this year in EU member states, including Sweden and the Czech Republic.

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