NATO “tracked” the flight path of the drone that crashed this week in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, from the Ukraine war, According to what sources from the Alliance indicated to Efe this Saturday.
“NATO’s integrated air and missile defense tracked the flight path of an object that subsequently crashed in Zagreb. The Croatian authorities have announced that they are investigating this incident,” the allied sources said.
On Twitter, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claimed that he discussed the incident with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.
Spoke with #Croatia‘s PM @AndrejPlenkovic on yesterday’s drone incident in Zagreb. We agreed to stay in close contact and work together to establish the facts.
— Jens Stoltenberg (@jensstoltenberg) March 12, 2022
“We agree to remain in close contact and work together to determine the facts,” Stoltenberg added on the social network.
Plenkovic today asked NATO for better coordination of air defense to avoid incidents such as the one that occurred this week, when a drone crashed in Zagreb without being intercepted.
The unmanned aircraft crashed after flying over Romania, Hungary and Croatia, three NATO countries, without encountering obstacles or arousing any type of reaction, which is a sign that failures occurred, according to the prime minister.
“This incident reveals the need for greater cooperation within NATO. The possibility of something like this happening should not be allowed and should not happen again,” stressed the Croatian Prime Minister today as he toured the three-meter-deep crater that caused the artifact in Zagreb.
He explained that he has sent letters to the leaders of the EU and NATO in which he asks for greater alertness and coordination so that unknown devices cannot fly over NATO countries or reach European cities inadvertently.
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The Croatian Prime Minister confirmed that the device that exploded in Zagreb was a Soviet-made Tupoljev 141 Struzh drone.
The aircraft weighed six tons and was 14 meters long.was launched from the Ukraine, to briefly fly over Romania, Hungary for about 45 minutes, and Croatia for 7 minutesuntil crashing in a park in the capital.
It is not known who launched it, as both Russia and Ukraine deny it is theirs.
Plenkovic warned that 50 meters from the place of the fall there are a housing building for university students, a nightclub and restaurants, so that only by great luck there were no victims. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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