8 రోజుల్లో 4 డ్రోన్ల కూల్చివేత

రాజస్థాన్లోకి అక్రమంగా చొరబడ్డ పాకిస్థాన్ డ్రోన్ను ఉదయం కూల్చివేసింది సైన్యం. ఇలాంటి ఘటనలు ఎనిమిది రోజుల్లో నాలుగు సార్లు నమోదైనట్లు తెలిపారు అధికారులు.

5 రోజుల్లో 3 డ్రోన్ల కూల్చివేత

Published : Mar 12, 2019, 3:14 PM IST

Updated : Mar 12, 2019, 7:58 PM IST

సరిహద్దుల్లో పాకిస్థాన్ కవ్వింపు చర్యలు కొనసాగిస్తోంది. రాజస్థాన్ శ్రీగంగనగర్ జిల్లాలోని ఫతుహీ, రోహిడవాలీ గ్రామాల్లోకి వచ్చిన పాక్ డ్రోన్ను సైన్యం కూల్చివేసింది. ఈ ఘటన ఉదయం 5 గంటలకు జరిగింది.

డ్రోన్పై సైన్యం దృష్టి సారించుకుండా ఉండేందుకు సరిహద్దులో పాక్ కాల్పులకు తెగబడినట్లు తెలుస్తోంది. కాల్పుల వల్ల సరిహద్దు గ్రామాల్లో జనజీవనం స్తంభించింది.

మూడో సారి కవ్వింపు..

గత ఐదు రోజుల్లో భారత్లోకి ప్రవేశించిన మూడు పాక్ డ్రోన్లను కూల్చివేసినట్లు అధికారులు తెలిపారు. మార్చి 4న మొదటిసారి రాజస్థాన్లోని బికానేర్ సరిహద్దులోని అనూప్గడ్ సెక్టార్లో డ్రోన్ను నేలమట్టం చేశారు. అదే రాష్ట్రంలో హిందుమల్కోట్ ప్రాంతంలో భారత సైనిక స్థావరాలను పరిశీలించేందుకు శనివారం ఉదయం మరో డ్రోన్ ప్రవేశించింది. వేగంగా స్పందించిన సైన్యం ఆ డ్రోన్ను పేల్చేసింది.

మూడో సారి కవ్వింపు..

GERMANY FORGOTTEN CITY
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Zossen, Germany - 5 March 2019
1. Various of drone footage of Lenin statue and the "Haus der Offiziere," or officers' complex ++MUTE++
2. Various of "Haus der Offiziere," or officers' complex,
3. Werner Borchert walking
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Werner Borchert, Head of Bücher-und Bunkerstadt Wunsdorf  "Book and bunker town Wundsdorf" and tour guide:
"The history of military at this place, Zossen - Wünsdorf, is at somehow unique in Germany. The emperor, Hitler, the Soviets, one after the other the militarily was active here."
5. Various of Borchert entering the "Haus der Offiziere," or officers' complex
6. Close up of photo on the wall of a room
7. Wide of room with photos on the wall and text in Russian
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Werner Borchert, Head of Bücher-und Bunkerstadt Wunsdorf  "Book and bunker town Wundsdorf" and tour guide:
"The Russians wanted to leave this enormous cultural centre. After they left it was set up, as a memorial of their time on German territory. They wanted money for that. No-one paid. So the Russians took everything with them. And this wall here behind us, after taking out everything they could have taken, this view of photos. But I guess, that it was a message to the reunited Germany. Over the photos is written (Russian): 'this must not be repeated'. (That means) this must not be repeated."
9. Pan right of corridor to mural showing soviet modernism
10. Various of Borchert walking in the building
11. Close up of mural on wall showing soldiers on horse holding a communist flag
12. Wide of mural
13. Borchert walking along a corridor
14. Drone shot of exterior of the "Haus der Offiziere," or officers' complex ++MUTE++
15. SOUNDBITE (German) Werner Borchert, Head of Bücher-und Bunkerstadt Wunsdorf  "Book and bunker town Wundsdorf" and tour guide:
"The special thing here is that this was a centre of the hot wars of the 20 century. The first and then the second world war, and the cold war, station of the Soviet troops. And the extraordinary thing is that you can read through the buildings, with every stone and every chunk of concrete, it's almost 100 years of history."
16. Exterior of building at the "Haus der Offiziere" housing a swimming pool
17. Wide tilt of swimming pool
18. Various of drone footage of the bunkers ++MUTE++
19. Various of the Maybach complex
20. Tourist taking photos
21. Tilt-down of structure in the Maybach complex
22. SOUNDBITE (German) Sylvia Rademacher, tour guide for Bücher-und Bunkerstadt Wünsdorf - "Book and bunker town Wundsdorf":
"This was already secretive during the Nazi times, people who lived here, of course know that it was somehow related to the military, but they didn't know the details, if they weren't integrated somehow. Under Russian times this was just as secretive or, one could say, exterritorial. The German territory ended at the walls, if they didn't worked here. Therefore, this did not play such a big role in the overall view of the people."
23. Tourists at the Maybach complex
24. Close up of Mayback complex
25. Various of tourists at the Maybach complex, walking
26. SOUNDBITE (German) Sylvia Rademacher, tour guide for Bücher-und Bunkerstadt Wünsdorf - "Book and bunker town Wundsdorf":
"For me it's a memorial, a warning that one has to teach young people so that all of this does not happen again, no matter in what country."
27. Various of tourist opening the entrance to the Zeppelin bunker, tourists entering
28. Door securing the entrance to the Zeppelin Bunker
29. Interior of bunker
30. Tourists going down the steps inside the Zeppelin bunker
31. Phones
32. Tourists looking at hole left by bomb blast in the roof of the room
33. Tilt-down of hole on the roof showing the thickness of the concrete
34. Close up of woman taking photo with a small camera
35. Room woman was taking a picture of
36. Russian graffiti on the wall the bunker
37. Corridor in the bunker
38. Equipment of the bunker on display
39. Close up of ledger
40. Drone shot of the Maybach complex ++MUTE++
41. SOUNDBITE (German) Christel Muller, tourist from Berlin:
"Its a bit of a strange feeling that back then they tried to build things in secret that nobody in the outside world would really see. If you stand in there yourself, you think, my god, if the doors would closed here now, no-one would ever find you again."
42. Drone shot from the horizon to the Maybach complex ++MUTE++
LEADIN:
A huge abandoned secret military complex hidden inside a fenced-off pine forest in eastern Germany is no longer off limits.
Tourists can now visit the so-called forbidden city where once the Kaiser, Hitler and the Soviets were militarily active.
STORYLINE:
Lenin's statue, standing proud, in front of the officer's complex.
It's here that Werner Borchert , the head of the Bücher-und Bunkerstadt Wunsdorf, runs organised tours through the compound in the Wuensdorf neighbourhood of Zossen, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Berlin.
Borcherts, who grew up in the area, leads you through the "Haus der Offiziere," which was built in 1910.
"The history of the military at this place, Zossen-Wunsdorf, is somehow unique in Germany. The emperor (the Kaiser), Hitler, the Soviets - one after the other were militarily active here," says Borchert.
It served as the Nazis' command centre for the Army during World War II. During the Cold War that followed, it was the headquarters for the Soviets' military high command.
In 1994, a few years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reunification of Germany and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the last Russian soldiers left the compound, a six-square-kilometre (2.3-square-mile) area fenced in by a 17-kilometre-long (10.5 miles) concrete wall.
"The Russians wanted to leave this enormous culture centre. After they left it was set up, as a memorial of their stationing on German territory. They wanted money for that. No-one paid. So the Russians took everything with them. And this wall here behind us, after taking out everything they could have taken this view of photos. But I guess that it was a message to the reunited Germany. Over the photos is written (Russian): 'this must not be repeated'. (That means) this must not be repeated," Borchert explains.
Some of the vacated rooms inside the three-story officers' complex still tell of the glory times of Soviet power in East Germany.
One pale mural aggrandises communism showing a powerful hydro-electric power station and muscular workers on tractors.
Since the Russians left, the complex is now under the auspices of the state of Brandenburg, but no money has been invested, no new owner has been found and so the ravages of time have taken their toll.
The faded yellow plaster is flaking off the facade, windows are broken, a fuse box dangles off a wall, and wild animals like martens and weasels have left behind excrement on the dusty floors.
The forbidden city as it was dubbed during Soviet times - because German locals were only rarely allowed to enter with special permission - is still off-limits for the public.
But it is possible to see what is here on a specially organised tour.
"The special thing here is that this was a centre of the hot wars of the 20 century. The first and then the second world war, and the cold war, station of the Soviet troops. And the extraordinary thing is that you can read through the buildings, with every stone and every chunk of concrete, it's almost 100 years of history," explains Borchert.
Being the cultural centre for the Soviet Army in Germany, there was a theatre, a museum, shopping facilities, a swimming pool and barracks for some 40,000 soldiers who were stationed here.
There are also traces of the Nazis' Third Reich reign to be found in Wuensdorf, among the most prominent an elaborate and secretive system of bunkers.
Known as Maybach I and Maybach II, the Nazis built several fake country houses out of concrete that was supposed to disguise underground bunkers that housed the High Commands of the Army and the Wehrmacht, where much of the planning of World War II happened.
Much of the Maybach complex was destroyed after the end of the war by the Soviets, but the huge underground bunker Zeppelin, which served as an information centre during the war where much of the phone calls, telexes, and radio messages came through from the different war fronts, is still accessible.
"This was already secretive during the Nazi times, people who lived here, of course, know that it was somehow related to the military, but they didn't know the details, if they weren't integrated somehow," says Sylvia Rademacher, who, just like Borchert works for the Buecher- und bunkerstadt Wuensdorf and gives tours.
"Under Russian times this was just as secretive or, one could say, exterritorial the German territory ended at the walls if they didn't work here. Therefore, this did not play such a big role in the overall view of the people" Rademacher adds.
The Soviets, too, used the bunker for communication purposes during the Cold War.
Reflecting on what Wuensdorf's military history means to her personally, Rademacher pauses for a moment to look at the destroyed Maybach bunkers and says, "for me, it's a memorial, a warning that one has to teach young people that all of this shall not happen again, no matter in what country."
"Its a bit of a strange feeling that back then they tried to build things in secret that nobody in the outside world really sees. If you stand in there yourself, you think, my goodness, if the doors would close here now, no-one would ever find you again", says Christel Muller from Berlin.
Approximately 20,000 visitors every year come to Wuensdorf to check out the town's military history.
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