An unmanned aircraft vehicle that crashed in Zagreb on 11 March 2022 lost its course and was unarmed. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated this at a briefing in Brussels, writes "Evropeiska pravda."
"I spoke with Prime Minister Plenković on Sunday; we are working together to clarify all the circumstances. Preliminary information shows that it was an unarmed drone, and this drone lost its course, ran out of fuel, and crashed in Croatia," said Stoltenberg.
He noted that appropriate airspace surveillance systems noticed the drone, but that it was necessary to establish whether there was an exchange of information between Croatia and other countries.
"This demonstrates the need to further deepen the exchange of information among allies. There is also a need to invest more and upgrade everything from radars to air defense systems," he added.
The journal notes that earlier, Minister of Defence of Croatia, Mario Banozic said that there were traces of explosives on board the military drone.
On the night of 11 March 202, a drone crashed near a dormitory in Zagreb, creating a crater with a radius of about three meters. The explosion affected about 40 parked cars.
Croatian experts believe that this is a Soviet-made Tu-141 Stryzh, used in the 1980s.
The Adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Markiyan Lubkivskyi, said that the drone that crashed in Zagreb was not Ukrainian. And journalists pointed out that the area of Zagreb, where the device hit, has the same name as the village in the Zhytomyr region.
Yesterday in Romania, 100 km from the Ukrainian border, a drone similar to the Russian "Orlan-10" was found.