NATO base in Kucova opens today

NATO airbase in Kucova will be opened this Monday. The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, with a post on his official page on “Facebook”, has shared a video from the moment of the assembly of the “Bayraktar” drones, which, as he says, will make their first flight at the opening ceremony of air base. […]

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