Defense Minister: “The drone attack from Galati can be repeated now.” The hypothesis that Miruță does not confirm: “It's a trick”
The Minister of Defense, Radu Miruță, said on Sunday evening that he cannot guarantee that incidents like the one in Galați, where a Russian drone hit a residential block, will not be repeated until Romania receives the new anti-drone defense systems requested. Also, Miruță avoided confirming the explanation provided by Nicușor Dan regarding how the Russian drone would have changed its trajectory before the impact.
The Minister of Defense, Radu Miruță. PHOTO: Mediafax
The minister explained that the Romanian Army uses all available resources to protect the airspace, but the current capabilities are insufficient in relation to the existing threats.
“The army uses absolutely all the resources it has at its disposal in the most optimal way, but these resources for anti-drone defense are much less than we need. I did not guarantee that it will not happen again. It can happen again now. I have guaranteed that these new systems will be introduced in the defense system in the Danube Delta area. The endowment of the Romanian Army is not done overnight”. stated Radu Miruță, in an intervention at Digi24.
Miruta avoided confirming the explanation offered by Nicușor Dan, such as that the drone was diverted over Ukraine
Instead, the Interim Minister of Defense avoided confirming the explanation offered by President Nicușor Dan regarding how the Russian drone would have changed its trajectory before the impact.
The minister stated that the information he received concerns the origin and technical characteristics of the aircraft, not the exact circumstances that determined its entry into Romanian airspace.
“That she was targeted intentionally, that she lost communication is a matter we have no way of knowing,” said the minister.
He explained that a possible technical and ballistic expertise could provide more details about the circumstances of the incident.
“Probably there is the possibility of ballistic expertise on the components or probably the Romanian Intelligence Service or whoever took care of this piece has such information. On our radars we see the route of this drone. We saw it coming from the Black Sea, (…) crossing the Danube, entering Romanian airspace and crashing in Galati”said the minister.
“It's a loophole in public space”
Radu Miruță believes that the debate regarding the exact reason why the drone changed its direction risks shifting attention from the main problem: the presence of a Russian drone loaded with explosives on Romanian territory.
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“It's a loophole in the public space, it's an attempt to debate a subject that has much less importance,” he said.
The minister added that many of the drones previously recovered on Romanian territory had traces of bullets, but in the case of the device that hit the block in Galati, he has not yet received information on the exact cause of the deviation.
“It is possible that this drone also has bullet marks. I am telling you that the data we have received is on the composition and source,” stated Miruta.
“There is no apology from the Russian Federation”
Radu Miruță also said that there are no doubts about the origin of the drone and launched an ironic message to the Russian authorities, after Moscow contested the responsibility for the incident.
“The drone is Russian-made. If there are voices in Russia who, based on this data, say that it is not theirs, I invite them to come and get their series and find the factory in Russia where this drone was produced. As long as it has an explosive charge, it is the duty of those who launch it to take care of its trajectory”, said the minister.
“There is no apology from the Russian Federation as to why a Russian drone, with approximately 30 kilograms of trinitrotoluene, an explosive substance, came into an airspace where it was not allowed,” said Miruta.
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The technical report confirms the provenance of the drone
The minister's statements come in the context in which the Ministry of National Defense presented on Sunday evening the conclusions of the technical report on the drone that crashed on a block of flats in Galati on the night of Thursday to Friday.
According to the document, the device was a Russian-made kamikaze drone, equipped with a High-Explosive explosive charge of approximately 30 kilograms, which detonated on impact.
The specialists determined that the fragments recovered and the components analyzed are identical to those found in the case of other drones previously fallen on Romanian territory, in areas such as Ceatalchioi, Galați, Grindu and Luncavița.
