Plenković: It Has to be Established Who Launched the Drone and How it Reached Croatia

He informed the leaders of other EU member states at a summit in Versailles about the incident and said Croatia had experts for such situations.

“We will share with others the things they find out,” he said at the end of the summit.

“They received this information with maximum seriousness. It’s not usual for an aircraft that is 14 metres long and weighs six tonnes to fall on a capital city.”

Asked if NATO tracked the drone and if Croatia was informed about it, Plenković said, “If someone had been notified, the reaction would have been different. Our planes would have taken off and reacted.”

This was a totally unforeseen situation, he added.

A NATO spokesman told Hina the alliance’s air defence tracked the drone’s flight path.

The Russian-made drone arrived in Croatia from Hungary, and in Hungary from Romania. It was in Croatia’s airspace for six or seven minutes before crashing in a residential area in Zagreb.

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