NATO mobilized nearly 300 million troops in this year's Defenders exercise to gather in small countries on Russia's western border for so-called "agile response" training, which is also considered a military exercise against Russia.
In the course of the exercise, NATO troops were injured one after frequent mistakes, especially more than a dozen soldiers of the US Air Force in the process of airborne landing. In a recent exercise, U.S. soldiers again made a joke, and several heavily armed soldiers kicked open a civilian factory in Bulgaria, posing a serious threat to production and employee safety, and the factory subsequently sued the U.S. military in the exercise.
On the 29th, Bulgarian media Nova said that when the United States was conducting military exercises in Bulgaria, it raided a civilian factory building with guns in the city of Plov in the central region.
Notably, the U.S. soldiers did not realize that they were breaking into civilian facilities and threatened the employees in the factory with weapons and guns to surrender. After the incident, the United States did not react, and after the media exposure, the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense quickly apologized.
Bulgarian media said that there is a military base near the factory that was raided, and this part of the US military is conducting exercises in the military base beforehand. But in the process, American soldiers crossed the fence and tumbled into the factory, armed with weapons after interrogating the factory and interrogating employees, and the soldiers then left the factory.
After the media exposure, the US military argued that this was an accident, and the exercise troops at the time thought that this was also part of the exercise scene.
According to the video taken by the camera of the factory, after the American soldiers rushed into the factory, they searched with guns, pointed guns at the heads of workers, and demanded that they surrender and kneel on the ground. According to a worker present, the incident was so sudden that they did not know what the soldiers were saying in English, and they were pointed at the head by the soldiers and demanded to surrender on their knees.
"You know what? It's insulting to us, like extremists, being held at gunpoint and being killed the next second. "The head of the factory complained to the media about the rudeness of the U.S. military," and has filed a lawsuit with the court alleging that these U.S. troops endanger our safety and work. ”
At present, the Bulgarian court has accepted the matter, and both the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense and the US military have expressed their willingness to make financial compensation for it.
Before the incident was exposed, Bulgarian civilians were unaware of the existence of military exercises, and after the US army invaded the factory, several workers thought that the United States wanted to "invade" Bulgaria. It was not until after the incident that the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense announced for the first time that 7,000 soldiers from different countries were already conducting exercises throughout Bulgarian territory.
Civilians in bulgaria are outraged by the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense's blockade of the exercises, as if their own country had been violated and they did not know it. The Bulgarian opposition also used this to attack defense officials and demand their immediate resignation.