Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied Russian responsibility for the drone crash into a building in Romania.
"No one can say where a particular aircraft came from until an expert assessment has been carried out," Putin told Russian journalists in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Friday.
He claimed it was more likely that a Ukrainian drone had strayed off course.
In the past, he said, stray Ukrainian drones have crashed in Finland, the Baltic States and Poland. Each time, Russia was initially blamed, he added.
However, Moscow was prepared to clarify the matter, Putin said, and called for the handover of the drone wreckage. Only then could Moscow comment objectively on the case, he said on the sidelines of a summit of the Eurasian Economic Union.
During the night, a drone crashed into a residential building in the Romanian city of Galati, near the border with Ukraine. Two people were injured.
In response, Bucharest summoned the Russian ambassador and closed the consulate general in Constanta. A number of EU and NATO countries have condemned the incident as a Russian escalation.
