Croatians are angry: how could a military drone fly unnoticed over Hungary?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán only learned from his Croatian counterpart, Andrej Plenković, that the large reconnaissance drone Tu-141, which had crashed out of Ukraine on Thursday night, had flown in Hungarian airspace for more than 40 minutes. leaving a deep crater in the Jarun district of the Croatian capital, writes Folk word based on index.hr reporting.
Andrej Plenković held a press conference on Saturday morning after returning home from the Versailles European Council summit, asking Viktor Orbán how the incident might have happened.
“It could have fallen to Budapest, Ljubljana, Bratislava” – or even to Paks
– said the Croatian prime minister, adding with obvious irritation that cooperation should be improved and that if something happens, the situation is intolerable.
Plenković said that when he asked Viktor Orbán about the matter, the Hungarian Prime Minister started calling and getting information. As I called Zagreb, he called Budapest, the Croatian prime minister said, according to Népszava.
According to Andrej Plenković, it is up to Hungary to find out how all this could have happened,
the Hungarian drone spent much more time in the Hungarian airspace than in Croatia.
In the case, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had previously been able to say that airplanes of the Hungarian Air Force took off twice on Friday on the basis of suspicious radar signals, but never found any flying objects. The case is still under investigation.