SecondThe second transport plane of the Luftwaffe is on its way to Kabul. According to a spokesperson for the Air Force of Reuters news agency, this is to allow German citizens and Afghan aid workers to take off. On Monday morning, the first A400M transport aircraft took off from Winstdorf Air Force Base.
Bundeswehr paratroopers are scheduled to arrive in a military transport vehicle in the Afghan capital on Monday to take German citizens and local helpers from Taliban fighters to safety. On the same day, according to news from the security community, a so-called crisis support team (KuT) composed of experts from various ministries and commissions arrived in the Afghan capital.
The Bundeswehr’s largest evacuation operation
In Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, the second team will organize a center to rescue people from Islamists.This may be the largest evacuation operation to date Armed forces -A particularly explosive one. “One thing is certain: this is a dangerous task for our soldiers,” the Department of Defense wrote on Twitter on Monday. The Bundeswehr withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of June after 20 years of deployment.
The first members of the German Embassy in Kabul have flown out of Kabul. According to the German News Agency, 40 employees of the German Embassy boarded an American plane in Doha, the Gulf Emirate of Qatar, on Monday night. Four members of the Swiss representative office in Afghanistan are also on this machine.
In addition to the staff of the German embassy, local Afghan staff who have previously worked for the armed forces or federal ministries or are still working will be brought to Germany.
Rapid force division of labor
In view of the rapid advancement of the Taliban, for security reasons, embassy staff have been taken to the airport protected by the US military. For many local workers, the road to save Kabul has been blocked after the Taliban continued their rapid conquest movement and often confronted government forces that had fallen without a fight.
The Bundeswehr mainly uses paratroopers from the Rapid Force Division (DSK). As part of the country’s risk and crisis preparation, the Bundeswehr is prepared for this task. These experts are stationed in Saarlouis (Saarland) and Seedorf (Lower Saxony), both of which belong to the airborne brigade 1. The German Gendarmerie (“Feldjäger”) and Bundeswehr medics also participated.
Two A400Ms can provide space for 114 passengers and have special protection against missile attacks, for example, flying affected persons to a “third country”, that is Federal government It has not been mentioned for security reasons. From there, it entered Germany with civilian machines. In total, how many people will be airlifted is not yet clear.
100 Germans and thousands of local employees leave Kabul
As of Sunday, the total number of German citizens still in Kabul is estimated to exceed 100. It was not clear until the end how many local workers were involved. It is definitely a four-digit number. Recently, in terms of national development assistance alone, 1,100 Afghans are still working on behalf of Germany. In addition, there are thousands of former local employees of the Bundeswehr or federal ministries.
