Germany investigates drone flights over nuclear power plant

In Germany, prosecutors have launched an investigation after a drone flew over a nuclear power plant. Russian agents are suspected of launching the UAVs, Bild reports, UNN writes.

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The prosecutor's office of the German city of Flensburg, as the publication has learned, launched an investigation after drones were spotted over an industrial zone in Schleswig-Holstein. They flew at high speed over the area where a shutdown nuclear power plant, an LNG terminal, and chemical plants are located.

According to the publication, the last time a UAV was spotted in the area of industrial enterprises was on August 22. Because of this, the police of Schleswig-Holstein put some of their officers on alert. In addition, another drone flying at a speed of more than one hundred kilometers per hour was spotted in the sky above a nuclear power plant late in the evening of August 20. An internal police report said that "the no-fly zone was violated several times." Presumably, a military drone crossed the zone.

"The Flensburg Public Prosecutor's Office confirms the opening of a preliminary case on suspicion of intelligence activities for the purpose of sabotage in connection with repeated flights of drones over the most important infrastructure facilities in Schleswig-Holstein," Senior Prosecutor Bernd Winterfeld told the publication.

"Bild found out that drone flights near the nuclear power plant have been recorded since August 8 this year. According to a preliminary version, they can be launched by Russian agents from ships in the North Sea," the newspaper reports.

According to the newspaper, "employees of the German State Security Service assume that these are Russian drones used for sabotage purposes." "Experts are inclined to believe that the unknown drones are Orlan-10 UAVs, which have a range of 500 to 600 kilometers and fly at speeds of more than 100 km/h," the publication points out.

German media report that the Air Operations Center is cooperating with the police in this case, Euronews notes.

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