A former SRI chief indicates the weakness of the MApN in the incident with the Russian drone. “It detonates a hybrid ammunition that does not burst with flame”

Eduard Hellvig, the former director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), criticized on Monday, September 16, on an extremely ironic note, the reaction and how the state institutions, and especially the Ministry of National Defense (MApN), publicly communicated the details in the case of the Russian drone that entered our country.

“The fact that the drone was noticed by the systems, that it has been spotted, identified and accompanied can be a proper management way. The professional decision from the sleeve denotes calm and compassion. Hellvig, in a long post on his page on the social network X, entitled “What is the drone at Steaua București?”.

“In reality, instead of the resolute political message we expected, the Minister of Defense tells us on the ground how things were on the heaven of the homeland,” added the former head of the SRI, in a reference that directly concerns Ionuț Moșteanu, who currently leads the defense portfolio.

What does Eduard Hellvig say:

• “On Saturday night, a sleepwalking drone visited us from the Golan's bedroom. As he writes at first aid, with the sleepwalks you have to be delicate: do not leave their knives, you release their route, you keep them from stools left and you take them back to bed. We also did as he writes in the book, with the remarkable exception of the last gesture, which was inaccessible to us; As I said, in the bedroom it was full of hollows. So I turned her easy to the further, to find a good bed where she knew it.
• He reaches another vigilant man's house and will be their job as they can do. As in the old bank with the victim who falls at the intersection of the streets and the Academy. We move it to the Academy.
• The episode of the weekend drone, however, says something extra and detonates a hybrid ammunition that does not burst with flame.
• We know, the decision to hit the drone stood legally in the hands of the hunting pilots. And in heaven, sometimes, it's not like on earth. People decided how they believed in good relation to the situation in heaven, but also to the one on earth. We have no reason to doubt that they have respected the instructions and treated a delicate situation with professionalism. After all, we do not want an army on the steroids that darkens the judgment. Plus, NATO, as a philosophy, does not like the attitude “Trigger Happy”.
• But I was expecting that in the ministerial reaction after the incident it would not show even from the first paragraph in which the responsibility was. For someone who politically manages the defense of the nation, in heaven and on earth, as if I were waiting for some political assumption, a bit of protecting some military on duty. Somehow we are told that “my boys have done the right, legal and professional, leave them alone, talk to me.”
• In reality, instead of the resolute political message we were expecting, the Minister of Defense tells us of the earth as things were on the heavens of the homeland. Through the story without talent, it leaves us the important impression of hesitation. And this is the most devastating ammunition that the drone actually detonated in our society.
• It is clear to all, especially after the Poland Roiul; The goals want to spin the stick through the jar to generate sparks. To accredit in the hearts of the public at home the idea that the war is with the whole NATO. To galvanize a society (theirs), to test the cohesion (ours), to increase the state of political nervousness in the area. To hurt whole societies already feastered through misinformation. These are no longer secrets. In brackets, those who are constantly screaming that Romania is pushed in war by helping Ukraine are the ones who are now most vocal that Geran has not been sprayed.
• The incident is not strictly military, or, better said, is not in the essential military note. It strikes in the political attitude of all forces that have agreed to support Ukraine over the past three years. Does the basis of good faith erode and slip a sense of doubt: is it politics at the same parameters of skill with the subordinate military?
• The fact that the drone was noticed by systems, that it has been spotted, identified and accompanied can be a suitable way of management. The professional decision from the sleeve denotes calm calculation and compassion.
• But the stub from the office with flags, the explanations to the explanations, the finger directed to the crew shows the political weakness inappropriate with the times. A strip in front of the challenge. Missing a good opportunity to answer with the sec “I saw you, I was there, we will continue to take the most appropriate measures.”
• The political management of national defense must raise its level of assessment of situations and understand that force does not necessarily mean fire at the mouth of the pipe. You need stature, mental power, orientation and iron nerves.
• Currently, in relation to realities, the only Minister of Defense that stays in standards remains, unfortunately, Adrian Bumbescu.“

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 Minister of Defense, Ionuţ Măriţă, later stated on Saturday night at Antena 3 that the F-16 planes that were sent for the drone's interception were about to break it, but it changed its direction to Ukraine.

Moist said that the drone that entered the Romanian airspace was seen on the radars, and the planes sent to its interception had the legal right to break it.

“The planes rose and saw it. They were very close to dropping it, the drone flying very down, at one point he left for Ukraine. These are the information we have at this time. The drone came out of the airspace back to Ukraine and I want to clarify a detail. From a legal point of view, Law 73, The aerial space, so the F-16 pilots also had this approval from the Command of the Fatable Forces, then transmitted to the Air Components, they could take these drones, ”said Mureanu.

The minister said that it was a single drone that entered our airspace, but the Romanian planes or NATO allies are frequently raised from the ground for similar missions.

“We have challenges from Russia about every week. We give communications every time we see them and they are on the border of Romania. More and more come, there are drones at the border of Romania, on the northern border of Dobrogea, about every week we have the aircraft in the air, either ours, or of the German partners who have an airway here.

Later, Monday, Moșteanu said 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 drones. What did they want?

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 commander. The drone was intermittent.

For his part, President Nicușor Dan reacted on Monday evening, after the episode of the Russian drone that entered the territory of Romania, specifying that “we know it is Russian” and how long she flew into our airspace.

“My message is reliable to Romanians, on the one hand, on the other hand-continuation of the efforts that are not pleasant. It is not nice to give money to the army,” said the head of state, in an interview with Antena 3 CNN. “We know it is Russian. We also know the time interval as it flew on the Romanian territory,” said Nicușor Dan.

“I cannot say (if it had to be shot down, no).

“Not knowing her hand, we cannot know what she had inside,” Nicușor Dan replied, during the interview given Antena 3 CNN, asked if the Russian drone that entered the air space of Romania was armed.

“I do not have this information, because he had something inside her who … Not knowing her hand, we cannot know what he had inside. This is what I can say, she was, as I said so many times, followed by our planes and partners,” said the head of state.