The Russian Embassy in the Netherlands, as reported by multiple reports in the Dutch press, denounced the Dutch government’s deployment of its army in a drill to build a new design for prisoner-of-war camps at the army’s Marnehuizen facility in Gronigen, for Russian POWs. The Russian Embassy called these plans “grotesque” and “blasphemies.”
The Dutch newspaper NL Times reported June 13, “The Dutch Army is testing a new prisoner-of-war camp design this week in Marnehuizen, preparing for the possibility of holding up to 2,000 captured Russian soldiers in the event of a large-scale conflict, Dutch newspaper AD [Algemeen Dagblad] reports. It is the first time in more than 30 years that the Netherlands has conducted training focused on detention at this scale. The exercise is part of a broader shift in military planning, as scenarios involving mass captures of enemy troops are again being treated as plausible,” noted NL Times.
