Russian services allegedly spied on Ukrainian soldiers training in the use of new weapons at military bases in Germany, including American ones, on Friday, August 26, the German weekly wrote. Der SpiegeI.
Germany’s military counterintelligence service would have “hintsabout these espionage operations, according to the weekly. Two sites in particular would be subject to surveillance: the Idar-Oberstein (Rheinland-Palatinate) and Grafenwur (Bavaria) bases, which were controlled by the American military.
The German counter-espionage service reports, in particular, about the presence of vehicles at the entrance to the military camps in Idar-Oberstein, where the German army was training Ukrainian soldiers in the use of howitzers.Panzerhaubitze 2000In Grafenwoehr, the US military trained Ukrainians in Western artillery systems. According to MAD, the training assembly stations were also flown several times with small drones. German services also suspect Russia of trying to spy on the mobile phones of Ukrainians undergoing training in Germany.
MAD fears that Russian services are trying to eliminate opponents who have fled Russia to take refuge in Germany, or possible deserters and defectors from the security forces. Germany has been the scene of several espionage cases attributed to Russian services in recent years. The latter are also suspected of ordering a murder in the heart of the Georgian Chechen opponent.
Source: Le Figaro
