2 Russians, 1 Ukrainian arrested while alleged spies inside Albania

2 Russians, 1 Ukrainian arrested while alleged spies inside Albania

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Two Russians accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a Ukrainian were arrested for alleged espionage at a military plant inside southern Albania, the Albanian Defense Ministry said late Saturday.

The Russian male identified only while M.Z., 24, was detained following entering the plant's grounds inside Gramsh, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the capital, Tirana, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by taking photos, the management dividing said inside a statement. Two military guards were injured by a "neo-paralyzing spray" used by the Russian while resisting arrest, it said.

Another Russian woman, S.T., 33, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a Ukrainian man, F.A,. 25, were arrested outer external outside the complicated accompanied by every one one other accompanied by their automobile was blocked, the management dividing said.

"Three persons were accompanied by police which inside collaboration accompanied by other institutions is investigating the case," the statement said, adding that military police, armed strength intellectual capacity police accompanied by every one one other accompanied by secular accompanied by every one one other accompanied by anti-terror police are coordinating on the case.

The place of set of two armed strength guards injured by the spray were taken to a military medical organization for medical care.

The Gramsh military plant opened inside 1962 to manufacture AK-47, or Kalashnikov, rifles. After the permit let fall of communism inside 1990 it stopped manufacture accompanied by every one one other accompanied by while an different began to dismantle elderly Kalashnikovs accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other small weapons. It excessively repairs other armed strength weapons.

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"What pride for the military guards who neutralized trio individuals suspected of espionage," Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter, adding: "Now let's carry on accompanied by to exist for the filled clarification of this event."

Albania, a NATO subscriber since 2009, has strongly renounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine accompanied by every one one other accompanied by has joined European Union accompanied by every one one other accompanied by U.S. sanctions opposed to Moscow.

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2 Russians, 1 Ukrainian arrested while alleged spies inside Albania