Russia insists on examining the remains of the Galati drone. The Kremlin is waiting for a response, says Peskov

Russia has so far not received a response from Bucharest to President Vladimir Putin's statement that Moscow is ready to examine the wreckage of the drone that crashed in Romania last week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said on Monday, Reuters reports, taken by Agerpres.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday questioned the Russian origin of the drone that had crashed the previous night over a block of flats in Galaţi and asked Romania for evidence in this regard.

Speaking to the media at the end of a visit to Kazakhstan, the Russian president said he had barely heard about this incident.

“Who in Romania says that this is a Russian drone? (…) No one can determine the origin (of the drone) as long as an examination of this device is not carried out”, indicated Putin. He suggested that the wreckage of the drone be handed over to Russia for investigation.

Putin recalled that Ukrainian drones recently entered the airspace of Finland, Poland and the Baltic states. “The first reaction was the same as it is now in Romania: The Russians are coming!”, commented the Kremlin leader.

The conclusions of the investigation in Romania

President Nicusor Dan announced on Sunday that the drone that crashed in Galati was a Geran-2, of Russian origin, stressing that Romania will not ignore or minimize any incident that endangers the lives of its citizens, national security or the sovereignty of the Romanian state.

“This is the undoubted conclusion of the technical report completed by the Romanian state specialists. The investigation established this based on a consistent set of technical evidence. The inscription in Cyrillic characters was identified on the recovered fragments (…), and the electronic components, navigation systems, control modules, engine and constructive elements analyzed show similarities to the point of identity with those of other Geran-2 drones previously recovered on the territory of Romania and identified with certainty as being manufactured in the Federation Russian”, the president said.

The head of state specified that the report also shows that the manufacturing markings, technical inscriptions, constructive characteristics and materials used follow the same technological process encountered in the Geran-2 drones analyzed in recent years.