Suspicious package was also received by a Spanish company from which Ukraine receives weapons

On Wednesday afternoon, a package containing what is believed to be an explosive device was received by the Spanish company Instalaza, which makes weapons that the Spanish government is sending to Ukraine to help fight Russian forces. Source: European Pravda with reference to El Periodico Details: On Wednesday afternoon, the Aragon police and the Civil Guard received a report from Instalaza about a suspicious package with a similar description to the one sent to the Embassy of Ukraine in Spain.

Numerous police personnel were sent to the enterprise; the territory of the plant was surrounded, and the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on the nearby streets was blocked.

In the evening, experts detonated the package in a controlled manner; the operation concluded without casualties. The police began collecting physical evidence to analyse the contents of the package. Instalaza is a company in Zaragoza that has been designing and producing military infantry equipment since 1943.

It is one of the Spanish companies that produces the weapons that the government sends to Ukraine to defend against a Russian invasion. In particular, Instalaza produces rocket-propelled grenades used by the Ukrainian army in the war with Russia. At the beginning of the war, the Minister of Defense of Spain, Margarita Robles, announced that Kyiv would receive 1,370 of them.

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Background:

In the afternoon of 30 November, it became known that a Ukrainian embassy worker in Madrid suffered moderate injuries in a letter bomb explosion.

It is known that the incident in Spain was classified as a terrorist crime.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, instructed to immediately strengthen the security of all Ukrainian embassies abroad, and also called on his Spanish counterpart to take urgent measures to investigate the attack on the Ukrainian diplomatic mission.

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