Arrests at military factory in NATO country Albania |
2 soldiers injured! Was it Putin agents?
Sensitive incident in Albania!
The defense ministry of the NATO country has announced that two soldiers were injured at a military factory in the small town of Gramsh.
“Three citizens with Russian and Ukrainian passports tried to enter the factory,” the ministry said in a statement.
It went on to say, “The officers guarding the plant responded immediately, but two of our soldiers were injured in their efforts to stop the three foreigners.”
There was a physical altercation between the Russians and the Albanian guards, reports “Albanian Daily News”. Then the intruders are said to have sprayed a chemical substance.
The factory boss said the two Albanian soldiers were hospitalized after Saturday night’s attack. They are now well again, Albanian Defense Minister Niko Peleshi (51) published photos of them on Sunday night.
The politician: “Thank you to our two soldiers who sacrificed themselves to protect a strategic facility like the Gramsh plant. Get well soon to our officers!”
The Albanian Chief of Staff Arben Kingji (51) in the hospital with one of the two injured soldiers
Two men and a woman arrested
The intruders were arrested, according to local media reports they are two men and a woman. They are said to have had photographic equipment with them, and images of the military installation were also found on their storage media.
The obvious suspicion: were they Russian agents?
Sergei Sumlenny, the former head of the Kyiv office of the Böll Foundation, which is close to the Greens, has no doubts about this. When asked by BILD, he said: “In a different situation, you should have waited for more information. However, since the Russians have repeatedly threatened to attack the NATO countries, especially with regard to weapons production, we can assume that it was the Russians.”
The Russia expert continues: “According to the Albanian media, the three agents arrested today were disguised as tourists.” In previous attacks, Russian agents had entered the country as tourists with Schengen visas.
Regarding the discovered Ukrainian passports, Sumlenny said: “I’m not surprised, since hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian passports ended up in Russian hands in the occupied territories. Of course, the Russian planning center is behind the attack.”
When socialism reigned in Albania, the Gramsh plant was used for the production of the Russian AK 47 type rifle. Today, according to the ministry’s website, the plant provides manufacturing services for the defense industry.