NATO "tracked" the flight path of the drone that
crashed
this week in the Croatian capital,
Zagreb
, from the Ukraine war, according to Alliance sources.
"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."
On Twitter, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he had discussed the incident with Croatian Prime Minister
Andrej Plenkovic
: "We agreed to remain in close contact and work together to determine the facts," Stoltenberg added on the social network. .
Plenkovic has called on
NATO for better air defense coordination
to prevent incidents like 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, said 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 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.
The Croatian prime minister confirmed that the device that exploded in Zagreb was
a Soviet-produced Tupoljev 141 Struzh drone
.
The aircraft weighed six
and a half
tons and was
14 meters long
. It was
launched from the Ukraine
to briefly fly over Romania, Hungary for about 45 minutes, and Croatia for 7 minutes, until it crashed in a park in the capital.
It is not known who launched it, as
both Russia and Ukraine deny that 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.
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