Zagreb: Croatian officials criticized nato What he said on Saturday was the slow response of a military drone that flew all the way from a Ukrainian war zone over several NATO member states, before crashing in an urban area of the Croatian capital.
Russian-made unmanned aircraft crosses Romania and Hungary before entering Croatia and slammed into a field near a student hostel late Thursday night. Around 40 parked cars were damaged but no one was injured after the loud explosion.
NATO said the coalition’s integrated air and missile defense had tracked the object’s flight path. But the Croatian prime minister said the country’s authorities were not informed and that NATO only reacted after being questioned by journalists.
“We cannot tolerate this situation, nor should it ever have happened,” Prime Minister Lady plankovic Said while visiting the accident site.
“It was a pure and clear threat and both NATO and the EU should have responded,” he said. “We will work to increase the readiness not only of ourselves but of others as well.”
Plenkovic said the Soviet-era Tu-141 “Striz” reconnaissance drone flew for 40 minutes over Hungary and six to seven minutes over Croatia before crashing. Previously, Romanian defense officials said that the flying object was only about three minutes after crossing over Romanian airspace. UkraineWhich makes it difficult to intercept.
Plankovic called on the Hungarian authorities to launch an investigation into why its defenses did not notice the unmanned drone apparently because both Croatia and Romania had little time to react to a fast-moving object.
“Luckily, nothing too bad happened,” Plenkovic said, adding the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban “After I found out about it.”
“It could have fallen on the nuclear power plant in Hungary. Obviously there was no good response and other countries did not respond well. Now we have a test from which we have to learn and react much better,” he said.
He said only an air crash investigation could determine who launched the drone – Russian or Ukrainian – after the object was pulled out of a large crater created after the impact.
Both Russia And Ukraine denies that they launched the drone.
Military experts say Ukraine is the only known current operator of the Tu-141, which has a wingspan of about 4 meters (12 ft) and weighs just 6 tons.
Russian-made unmanned aircraft crosses Romania and Hungary before entering Croatia and slammed into a field near a student hostel late Thursday night. Around 40 parked cars were damaged but no one was injured after the loud explosion.
NATO said the coalition’s integrated air and missile defense had tracked the object’s flight path. But the Croatian prime minister said the country’s authorities were not informed and that NATO only reacted after being questioned by journalists.
“We cannot tolerate this situation, nor should it ever have happened,” Prime Minister Lady plankovic Said while visiting the accident site.
“It was a pure and clear threat and both NATO and the EU should have responded,” he said. “We will work to increase the readiness not only of ourselves but of others as well.”
Plenkovic said the Soviet-era Tu-141 “Striz” reconnaissance drone flew for 40 minutes over Hungary and six to seven minutes over Croatia before crashing. Previously, Romanian defense officials said that the flying object was only about three minutes after crossing over Romanian airspace. UkraineWhich makes it difficult to intercept.
Plankovic called on the Hungarian authorities to launch an investigation into why its defenses did not notice the unmanned drone apparently because both Croatia and Romania had little time to react to a fast-moving object.
“Luckily, nothing too bad happened,” Plenkovic said, adding the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban “After I found out about it.”
“It could have fallen on the nuclear power plant in Hungary. Obviously there was no good response and other countries did not respond well. Now we have a test from which we have to learn and react much better,” he said.
He said only an air crash investigation could determine who launched the drone – Russian or Ukrainian – after the object was pulled out of a large crater created after the impact.
Both Russia And Ukraine denies that they launched the drone.
Military experts say Ukraine is the only known current operator of the Tu-141, which has a wingspan of about 4 meters (12 ft) and weighs just 6 tons.