The drones also contain German technology.
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Istanbul, Dusseldorf A blue-grey landscape can be seen, then an explosion: the howitzer D-30 vanishes into thin air. Three people run away. The video, released by the Ukrainian army last October, shows the first combat use of a Turkish TB2 drone in Ukraine. According to the military, they were destroyed by a gun belonging to the Russian-backed separatists – which is said to have previously fired on and killed Ukrainian soldiers.
The outrage in Moscow was great. The government accused the country of violating the ceasefire. Turkey’s arms sales endangered regional stability: “It doesn’t help to solve the internal problem in Ukraine,” said government spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the time.
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