On Friday, Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku reacted for the first time to the drone that crashed on Thursday evening 8 kilometers from Braila. “A few minutes ago I spoke with the Minister of Defense. The perimeter has been closed since yesterday evening. An investigation is underway. He is not the first, I would like him to be the last, he did not endanger anyone’s life,” said Cholaku.

Asked what was known about the origin of the drone, Cholaku said: “Let’s wait for the investigation. If we look at the crater, there were no explosives in it, so it couldn’t have caused any damage even if it fell in another area.”

MApN still does not know what exactly fell near Braila: “Elements of a possible drone”

On Friday, MApN reported that “elements of a possible drone” that fell on the territory of Romania were found in Braille. It will be recalled that the explosion took place on Thursday evening, around 8:00 p.m., in Insula Mare, which is 8 kilometers from Braila and 23 kilometers inside the territory of Romania, reported the local mass media, which talked about the fall of the military drone.

• “On the evening of March 28, 2024, fragments that appear to come from an aerial vehicle (drone) were found in agricultural land on the island of Mare-à-Brailleur,” MApN said in a press release sent on Friday, March 29. 10:32:00 titled “Elements of Possible Drone Identified on Big Braila Island”.
• Currently, the Ministry of Defense together with specialized structures in the national defense system is conducting an on-site investigation of the incident according to special operational procedures,” the Ministry of Defense also reports.

• PLACE OF THE ACCIDENT. First images of the crater created when a military drone crashed on the Big Island of Braila, the largest intrusion incident into Romanian territory since the start of the war

It is reported that the drone crashed on Thursday evening near the city of Braila

It will be recalled that the explosion took place on Thursday evening, around 8:00 p.m., in Insula Mare, which is 8 kilometers from Braila and 23 kilometers inside the territory of Romania, reported the local mass media, which talked about the fall of the military drone.

A military drone was reported to have crashed between the municipality of Braille and the commune of Frechey on Thursday evening among law enforcement agencies in Braille County, according to information provided by confidential sources and quoted by local media.

The official independent confirmation was published by the local publication “Ziarul Comunitatea”, which quoted Colonel Štefan Stojan, the spokesman of ISU Brăila. He says he expected the villagers to call 112 in the event of such an event, but they did not do it “as it should”.

“I heard a blow, but I don’t know where it fell,” said an eyewitness, an employee of the ferry crossing to the Big Island. The statement was forwarded to another local publication, debraila.ro.

The formed crater has a diameter of approximately 4 meters and is visible from the air, reports the local publication.

“The helicopter of the Ministry of Defense, the anti-terrorist brigade from the SRI, the crews of the police, the gendarmerie and the ISU are on the Big Island of Braila, in the area of ​​the Filipoiu farm, where the military drone crashed in the field,” the journalists wrote.

The crash site is located 8 km from the ferry crossing from Braila Municipality to Big Braila Island.

The authorities were informed about the fall of the drone on Thursday evening, around 9:45 p.m. Since then, the territory has been cordoned off by law enforcement officers. Eyewitnesses claim that a strong impact was heard when the drone fell.