The unmanned aerial vehicle that crossed the border was hit by Ukrainian air defenses, Romanian President Nicusor Dan has said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an “objective investigation” into a drone incident in Romania in which two people were injured. Moscow is ready to share its assessment if it is provided with either the debris of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or the data about it, he told journalists on Friday.
A drone crashed into an apartment block in the eastern Romanian city of Galati near the Ukrainian border early on Friday. The Romanian Defense Ministry claimed the UAV had originated from Russia.
Putin noted that drones have previously crashed in various EU nations, including Finland, Poland, and the Baltic States.
“A short time later, it would emerge that these incidents had nothing to do with Russian aircraft at all. Rather, they involved drones of Ukrainian origin that had gone off course due to electronic warfare… or technical shortcomings,” the president said during his visit to Kazakhstan.
Putin called on the Romanian authorities to share “objective evidence” with Russia, adding that Moscow did the same when the Ukrainian military targeted a Russian presidential residence in a drone strike. “Let them [Romanians] do the same and provide the evidence to us,” he added.
Romanian President Nicusor Dan, who visited the drone crash site on Friday, told journalists that the incident could have been caused by Ukrainian air defenses. According to him, the drone was a part of a group of Russian UAVs deployed against targets in Ukraine.
“Some of them were shot down over Ukrainian territory, and one of them was probably hit above the city of Reni. Its trajectory changed and it came toward Galati,” he said, adding that the Romanian authorities have data on the drone’s movement. According to Dan, the incident was not considered a deliberate attack by Russia but rather the consequence of military operations not far from the Romanian border.
Russia has previously been blamed for drone and missile incidents in EU nations. One of the most high-profile incidents involved an S-300 air defense missile killing two people in Poland not far from the Ukrainian border in 2022.
Kiev was quick to frame the incident as a Russian attack “on the collective security” of NATO while Warsaw eventually determined that the projectile had been fired by Ukraine in a bid to repel a Russian strike on targets inside Ukraine.
Given the way in which our own western governments behave towards us in recent years, it has become much easier to believe the elite prolonging the war or cause renegotiation by attacking yourself to gain better terms.
That and the arrogant way in which our males are thown into battle to claim much needed rare earth metals, doesn’t have good outcomes for the families who rely on those fathers, sons, brothers and uncles. Their families need them alive.
If the west thinks self terminating the agreement NATO is never allowed to include Ukraine was just paperwork, well thats not going to work. Just like 1960’s Cuba, the idea of moving offensive wepons closer to the countries isn’t acceptable as it gives much less time to respond to a launch.
Trump and Putin’s plan was to allow west mining in Ukraine should have gone ahead.
Like to visit Russia someday. Understand they have quite a few war museums and world history buildings. The people are orderly and poverty is low. The cost of living is affordable too.
Given the unbalanced way in which the west treats males, men are not that keen to fight to keep that anymore.
There is indeed no reason for men to fight to defend anything in the “west” with the current state of the fake democracys’ toxic social and political policies.
A false flag operation designed to push the Russian aggressors narrative.
The Romanians have not provided any evidence that the drone was Russian rather than Nato, so you’re very likely correct.