Romania’s president reacts to alleged fall of Russian drone wreckage

This is reported by Digi24.

Klaus Iohannis speaks of an "urgent and professional investigation". The Romanian president plans to find out the origin of the wreckage, as well as the time and circumstances under which it ended up on Romanian territory.

"If it is confirmed that this wreckage is part of a Russian drone, this situation will be completely unacceptable and will be a serious violation of Romania's sovereignty and territorial integrity," said President Klaus Iohannis.

Iohannis also stressed that Romania remains well protected by NATO's security guarantees.

What happened before

As a reminder, on the night of September 3-4, Russia carried out a massive strike on southern Ukraine with Iranian ‘kamikaze’ drones. According to Ukrainian border guards, some of the drones crashed and exploded on the territory of Romania, a NATO member state. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that there was photographic evidence of the drones crashing in Romania.

The Romanian Foreign Ministry stated that the drone attacks carried out by the Russian Federation did not pose a direct military threat to our national territory or territorial waters.

On September 5, Romanian Prime Minister Klaus Iohannis said that neither Russian drones nor any parts had fallen on Romanian territory.  

OSINT analysts also found that a Russian drone had gone down in Romania near one of the border villages.  

On Wednesday, September 6, Minister Angel Tilvar confirmed that a team from the Ministry of National Defence had found suspected pieces of a Russian drone in Romania.