A blast at a strategic defence facility has revived questions about foreign interference, while officials point to an explanation closer to home.<\/p>\n
Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said that the country\u2019s authorities have found no signs of possible Russian involvement in the explosion at an ammunition plant in Colleferro, southeast of Rome.<\/p>\n
The explosion occurred last Thursday at the KNDS Ammo Italy facility. The plant is part of the Franco-German defence group KNDS. The causes of the incident are being established as part of an investigation.<\/p>\n
There is no indication that this could be anything other than an internal issue.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Guido Crosetto<\/p>\n
Guido Crosetto thus dismissed theories of a possible Russian connection to the explosion. At the same time, the Italian government declined to comment on reports that the facility may have been producing ammunition for Ukraine.<\/p>\n
What the KNDS Ammo Italy plant in Colleferro produces<\/p>\n
The Colleferro facility produces medium- and large-calibre ammunition for land and naval defence systems. It also manufactures solid fuel for aerospace launch vehicles.<\/p>\n
La Repubblica reported that prosecutors are examining a possible link between the explosion in Colleferro and similar incidents at ammunition manufacturing facilities in Bulgaria. Investigators did not comment on the details of the review.<\/p>\n
Explosion at a defence facility in Bulgaria<\/p>\n
In 2022, an explosion occurred at a military plant in the Bulgarian city of Kazanlak. Three people were killed in the incident.<\/p>\n
The investigation into the explosion at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant is ongoing, and Italian authorities currently regard the incident as an internal issue at the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blast at a strategic defence facility has revived questions about foreign interference, while officials point to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26957,26370,26956,1217,5,26958,26263,36,26959],"class_list":["post-40829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-ammunition-plant-explosion","tag-colleferro-explosion","tag-colleferro-explosion-knds-ammo-italy-guido-crosetto-russian-involvement-ammunition-plant-explosion-italy-defence-industry","tag-guido-crosetto","tag-italy","tag-italy-defence-industry","tag-knds-ammo-italy","tag-news","tag-russian-involvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}