The drone is Russian made: Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh. According to specialists, this is a Soviet reconnaissance drone used between the 1970s-1980s by the Red Army, only to be later used, since 2014, by the Ukrainian Army. So, by all sources, at the moment this drone is not in the use of the Russian army.

Romanian Army issued a press release on the military drone flying over Romania

“Regarding the information on the evolution in the Romanian airspace, during the night of Thursday, March 10, of an unmanned aircraft, we make the following clarifications:

Romania’s airspace surveillance system spotted on Thursday, March 10, a small aerial object, most likely an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), which evolved in the national airspace for a concise period, under three minutes.

The aircraft entered the Romanian airspace, coming from Ukraine, around 23.23 and left the national airspace around 23.26, heading to Hungary.

The evolution of this air object for a very short time in the national airspace, the high speed, the low flight altitude, associated with the rugged terrain and the weather conditions at that time, did not allow the use of other procedural measures to identify this air object in flight.”

One potential explanation for this incident

The speculation goes towards a potential confusion between the names of the lake Jarun in Zagreb and the city of Yarun in Ukraine. According to sources, the drone was programmed to fly to Jarun, which left it without fuel, and it crashed.

The drone flew 3 minutes over Romania, 30 minutes over Hungary and 7 minutes over Croatia. The high speed it flies at, around 700 km/h, made it almost impossible to be adequately detected and intercepted.

Still, there are 40 minutes when a military drone flew over NATO space, and no allied aircraft intervened or took any action of some kind. It is a severe incident that needs an immediate answer.

An investigation is conducted in Croatia.

Photo source: Wikipedia – By Bernhard Gröhl – Own work, CC BY 2.5,

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The strategy of the European Commission is clear: the Schengen area has to be enlarged for the member countries to reinforce mutual trust between them, but also for the free travel of the citizens and goods from all the EU countries.

So far, Romania and Bulgaria are the countries that accomplish the conditions for entering Schengen. Not from now, not from yesterday, but 2011 and 2010 respectively. Based on this, the European Parliament has called for the European Commission to speed up the acceptance of the two in the space of free travel. Yet, countries such as France or the Netherlands blocked the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. Why?

Apparently, the reason behind the decision of blocking the accession of Romania and Bulgaria is the level of corruption in the two EU member states, which could interfere with their capacity to defend their borders, thus the European borders as well.

Now it is not the European Parliament, but the very European Commission itself which asked the European Council to get the agreement from all member states for the three countries to be accepted in the free-travel space. As the agreement from all the EU member states is required, if one single country slams the proposal, the space remains closed for the candidates.

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Croatia, one of the countries which highly depends on tourism, as 20% of the GDP is produced by this sector, thought about opening its borders to foreign tourists. So far, the Croatian leaders initiated discussions with neighboring Czech Republic leaders, whom they proposed to inaugurate a touristic road between the two countries, for the Czech tourists to be able to spend their summer on the exquisite Croatian shores.

How would this be possible? Croatia will accept tourists with the condition that they bring, from their native countries, an official document stating they’re COVID-19 free. This will allow them to enter the country with the car or by plane.

Also, Croatia thinks about bringing tourists from other countries as well – Hungary or Austria. Though, tourists from the strongly affected countries, such as Italy or Spain, won’t be allowed in the country, Croatian officials stated.

Romanian tourists could have a good chance of entering the European touristic corridor, through Hungary, but it is too early to predict what would happen this summer.

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