NATO has no indication that the fragments of a drone found on the territory of Romania were caused by a deliberate attack by Moscow on our country, the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

“We have no information about a deliberate attack by Russia, and we await the results of the ongoing investigation,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told European parliamentarians.

Defense Minister Angel Tilvar confirmed on Wednesday that pieces of the Russian drone used in the attack from Sunday night to Monday fell on the territory of our country, reports Antena 3 CNN. The remains were found within the radius of the Tulcea Cheatalkioi commune.

The Antena 3 CNN team went to report in the commune of Čatalkioi in Tulcea, where they met the Minister of Defense and the army command, thus ending the conversation exclusively about the drone that allegedly fell on the territory of Romania. Until that time, all information from the Romanian authorities was limited to the fact that there were no traces of the equipment that fell from the Russian attack.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday that “no drone and no other part of any device” had reached Romania.

However, GeoConfirmed analysts, which geolocate images related to the war in Ukraine, said on Tuesday evening that a Russian drone fell on the territory of our country on Monday, confirming Ukraine’s information, while Romanian officials categorically denied until Angel Tilver confirmed this information. met with CNN’s Antena 3 journalists in the area where fragments similar to those from the drone were found.

Later, the Romanian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that on Tuesday evening it had identified “elements that can be assimilated to drone debris” near the village of Plauru, across the Danube from the Ukrainian port of Izmail, but the MApN specialists who collected the samples will conduct a “technical examination”. , which will allow establishing their origin, in the context of which Ukraine announced on Monday that a Russian drone fell and exploded on the territory of Romania.

The Minister of Defense admitted that it was he who informed President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday that no remains of Russian drones had been found in our country. Angel Tilvar’s statement comes in the context of Klaus Iohannis publicly announcing on Tuesday that “no part, no drone, no other part of any device has arrived in Romania”, reports Antena 3.

Answering a question about the responsibility of the top of the Ministry of Defense, in the conditions when the Romanian state for two days denied the fact that the drone fell in Romania, President Klaus Iohannis said that “all reports were made in good faith and were based on evidence.”

He said this at a joint press conference with Polish Presidents Andrzej Duda, Lithuanian Gitanas Nauseda and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic at the end of the Three Seas Initiative (I3M) Summit organized on Wednesday. in Bucharest.

At a press conference in Kotrochen, Klaus Iohannis was asked how to explain the fact that for two days, Romanian state officials, including himself, categorically denied the incident that Ukraine had been reporting since Monday: the downing of a drone on the territory of Romania.

Iohannis argued that “we have to understand” that during war, things change from day to day, and did not for a moment condemn the Ministry of Defense for denying for two days what Kyiv insisted had happened.

“In the situation we are in, in the situation of war on our border, we have to understand that we have a changing situation, as experts say. Therefore, today we have a different situation than yesterday, and that’s all,” the head of state said.

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• Iohannis’s first reaction after MApN finally confirmed that a drone crashed in Romania: if it is confirmed that these are elements of a Russian drone, it will be a serious violation of Romania’s sovereignty and territorial integrity