Germany does not rule out DHL aircraft crash in Lithuania to have caused Russia

Her foreign minister, Annalena Burbok did not rule out that the crash earlier Monday (25.11.2024) on the DHL aircraft, which departed Leipzig to be “an accident or a hybrid incident” associated with external involvement, “photographing” Russia. “We have to ask (…) seriously whether (ed. the crash of DHL’s aircraft in Lithuania) was an accident or, like last week, again a hybrid incident,” said Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annanna Berbok on the margins of the G7 summit in Italy. It is recalled that the DHL cargo plane crashed around 05:30 in the morning of Monday (Greece time) near Vilnius Airport, resulting in the loss of one person – Spanish, a member of the crew – and three others being injured. “Recently, we have had hybrid attacks on many occasions in Europe (…) with targets of individuals, infrastructure underwater or ashore,” said the head of German diplomacy at a press conference in Fuji, a few kilometers outside Rome. In the DHL plane survey, “German and Lithuanian authorities are already working hard in all directions to clarify the incident,” said the German Foreign Minister. The causes of the aircraft truck crash are not known at this stage. Swiftair cargo 737-400 has crashed while on approach to Vilnius International Airport, Liechtenstein. One pilot and one person on the ground were killed. The second pilot and two others survived with unqualified injuries. The aircraft, operated by a DHL contractor Swiftair, was… — Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) Lithuania’s president, Gitanas Nauseda, visited early Monday afternoon the location of the DHL aircraft cargo, along with the ambassadors of Germany and Spain in the country. “The research is still ongoing and conducted by experts. I have no doubt that everything will be clarified and clarified in detail,” said Gitanas Nauseda. The Lithuanian police chief said a terrorist attack cannot be ruled out as a reason for the crash, but added that so far there is no evidence of that. “This is one of the versions that need to be investigated and verified. We still have a lot of work ahead of us,” Arunta Pavlauskas said at a press conference. DHL announced from Frankfurt that . The building, in which it crashed, had two floors and four apartments while living in it three families. All 12 tenants are safe, Posela said. The fire on the plane was under control. Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, European officials believe that Russia has been waging a “hybrid war” against the Western countries that allied with Kiev in order to destabilise them. Two underwater telecommunications fibre optic cables were cut in the Baltic Sea last week, one between Finland and Germany and the other between Sweden and Lithuania. European governments then accused Russia of escalating hybrid attacks on the western allies of Ukraine, but avoided directly blaming Russia for the destruction of cables.