The reply of the Minister of Defense, after the irony of the Russian Embassy: the drone was Russian, what did he want, picture with the label? / What the foreign minister says after the discussions with the ambassador

It is “clear” that the drone entered on Saturday in the airspace of Romania is a “Russian”, said the Minister of Defense, Ionuț Moșteanu, who says this was also confirmed by the pilot who drove the F-16 band. The replica comes after Russia claimed that there is no evidence that the drone is of Russian origin and ironized Romania saying that it “discovered another UFO”.

Moșteanu told Antena3 on Monday that he analyzed the full report of the mission and also discussed with the pilot who drove the F-16 band: “He writes clearly in the report, and the pilot confirmed that this is a Russian drone, used by the Russians to attack Ukraine. The Ukrainians do not have such Drone. What did they want? Nothing new. “

The Minister of Defense praised the decision “of professionalism and responsibility” of the F-16 pilots who had the authorization to break down the drone, but decided not to open the fire:

“They made the correct decision, I trust the maturity of the pilots and their mission commander. When you shoot with missiles on the territory of a country that is not in war or with the dashboard it is a potential risk of collateral damages.

The contact with the drone was intermittent. If it had always had visual contact, it may have dropped it, but given the constructive difference between the plane and the drone, this contact is lost. ”

Foreign Minister: “Surely the Russians do not need us to tell them that their drone is theirs”

And the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oana Ţoiu, reacted to the statements of Russia, saying that “they have the same approach they had when the war in Ukraine began and called him a special operation.”

The foreign minister was asked, at Digi 24, about the message of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, after the ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Certainly the Russians do not need us to tell them that their drone is theirs. They have the same approach they had when the war in Ukraine began and they called him as a special operation, not war. The fact that they try to use different words did not change the reality. (..) No one has a stake.

And the attempts they have to change reality, using these types of speech, are not attempts that will succeed. In fact, if they believed that this challenge would intimidate or their attempts to reduce European solidarity will be successful, they are wrong.

Each time there are challenges of the common, ally space, of the European Union space, what happens is that we use the respective moments to intensify the dialogue between us, to increase solidarity and to increase the mechanisms in which we synchronize our decisions, as is the case and will continue to happen on the Flamer,

She stressed that in the discussion of her colleagues in the ministry with the Russian ambassador to Bucharest “it was very clear the firm protest of Romania, as well as the clarity that these challenges are unacceptable.”

Asked if the level of alert is high in Romania at this time, the Foreign Minister said that “we, at this moment, are safe.”

“He discovered a new UFO”

On Saturday afternoon, a Russian drone entered the Romanian airspace and two F-16 planes intercepted.

Mapn later said that it was a Geran drone (Shahed-136 Iranian), who left our country and entered Ukraine.

The Russian ambassador to Bucharest was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after this incident, only three days after previously he had been called in relation to the Russian drones that raped the air space of Poland. In reply, the diplomatic mission ironized the MApN on the Saturday incident.

“On September 13, the Ministry of Defense of Romania discovered another UFO (unidentified flying object) in the country's airspace and has been in a hurry to announce that it would be a Russian drone. In this sense, on September 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania convened the Russian ambassador to transmit the” firm protest “of the Romanian authorities. During the discussion, however, none of the questions asked about the identification of the drone that would have entered the Romanian air space received a concrete and convincing answer. Considering the lack of an objective confirmation of the national provenance of the flying apparatus, the protest of the Romanian part was rejected as unfounded and unjustified ”, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bucharest said.

Russian ambassador Vladimir Lipaev claims that “an intentional challenge of the Kiev regime has taken place, which, fearing an inevitable military failure and responsibility for the crimes committed both against the Russian and Ukrainian people, desperately tries, by any means, to involve other European states in a dangerous adventure.”