The federal government in Vienna continues to monitor developments in Russia after the weekend’s mercenary uprising with great interest. Today, Tuesday, the National Security Council meets behind closed doors.
Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) expressed concern on Saturday. “The events in the Russian Federation are always of the utmost strategic importance because Russia biological, chemical and nuclear weapons,” he said on the sidelines of the “European Forum” Göttweig. Nuclear weapons must not fall into the wrong hands.
Nehammer convened a crisis cabinet
The government’s crisis cabinet met at the Ministry of Defense on Sunday. After that, it was announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had issued a partial travel warning for the administrative regions bordering Ukraine (Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Rostov, Krasnodar), and that the Ministry of Interior had extended the protective measures for certain facilities raised.
“We will not allow an internal Russian conflict to be fought on Austrian soil,” Nehammer said. Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) stressed that current events support the plan to end dependence on Russian gas supply.
Interior Minister: “Police action increased in some areas”
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) announced on Monday that state security had reacted as soon as the events surrounding the mercenary group Wagner became known. “Orders have been issued” to “also expand police operations in some areas,” the interior minister explained. For reasons of police tactics, he “did not want to say where”, but it was about “buildings or people who could be in danger here”.
Source: Krone
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