About 400 mechanics and engineers have been restoring military equipment damaged on the frontlines in Ukraine in a secret workshop in an undisclosed location in Poland, according to reporters from Wall Street Journal.
The media reported there is a huge mechanical workshop that receives Ukrainian military equipment damaged in the hostilities. It employs around 400 people, both mechanics and engineers, dedicated to restoring heavy Ukrainian equipment to full functionality.
The machines being repaired at the workshop are Polish-made AHS Krab howitzers donated to the Ukrainians as military aid.
The workshop belongs to the state-owned Polish Armaments Group and is secured by the Polish Internal Security Agency, the report states. For security reasons, the process of recruiting technicians for the workshop can take up to several months, and only Polish citizens are allowed inside.
“It is safe to assume that Poland is a leader when it comes to servicing the equipment being used by the Ukrainians on the battlefield,” said Tomasz Smura, an expert on military technologies from Casimir Pulaski Foundation, an independent think tank in Warsaw.
Mechanics working at the plant are in constant contact with soldiers operating at the front. Contact via encrypted applications helps the technicians to provide quick technical advice to Ukrainians in need of rapid assistance.
The Polish authorities have plans to expand the workshop’s operations to repair foreign-made equipment, but, for now, this remains an unrealised and unconfirmed project, the report states.
(Bartosz Sieniawski | EURACTIV.pl)
Source: euractiv.com
