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Montenegrins attack WFP ships

(B2) A team of a dozen soldiers from Montenegro has joined the EU's anti-piracy operation in the Indian Ocean

The team of Montenegrin soldiers undergoing medical checks in Djibouti, under the watchful eye of the Spanish medical team (credit: EUNAVFOR Atalanta)

They will be deployed as an APVD team (Autonomous Vessel Protection Team), to ensure the protection of World Food Program (WFP) ships supplying Somalia from Kenya.

This is not the first time that the soldiers of this small Balkan country have boarded the European operation. This was already the case three years ago, in 2017 (read: A team of Montenegrin VPDs on board the WFP ship).

(NGV)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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