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Friday, March 11, 2022
How it is possible that this size of drone was not shot down ?
Zagreb's mayor Tomislav Tomasevic said "it's amazing that no-one was injured".
Croatia's president said there was no sign the country had been targeted.
Markings on the debris included Cyrillic lettering and a five-pointed star. Local experts said these suggested that the drone was a Soviet-era TU-141 reconnaissance aircraft.
Croatia's government confirmed that the drone had passed over Hungary, which borders both Ukraine and Croatia, before crashing in Zagreb.
President Zoran Milanovic said it was a serious incident: "We need to review certain procedural issues and determine how it is possible that this size of plane was not shot down on the way from Ukraine to Zagreb."
He was concerned that Croatia had received no warning of the incoming drone, even though it had spent the best part of an hour flying across Hungary - a fellow member of Nato. He was alarmed that "an unsophisticated aircraft" had apparently evaded detection.
There is now concern that Croatia would not be ready if the worst happened and the conflict spread. Critics point out that no air raid sirens sounded in Zagreb and that many Croatian shelters have fallen into disrepair.
Unidentified flying object crashing in the capital of Croatia.
ðŸ‡ðŸ‡· Unidentified flying object crashing in the capital of Croatia. Object that fell looks like a part of an aircraft engine. Crater is 3m wide and 1m deep.#Zagreb #Croatia pic.twitter.com/ArxsNVKmEo
— Based 🇫🇮 (@Based_FIN) March 11, 2022
Explosion in Zagreb
Cropix
An explosion in Zagreb could be heard last night at 23:00, and a very strange situation has unfolded since then, with an impact hole, parts of a plane and parachutes discovered.
Police patrols were urgently sent to the locations of the report and found a crater on the green area at the address Jarunska bb, while they found two parachutes in the wider area, for which we'd also previously received reports from people. Police officers dealt with both the narrower and wider area of the scene where the investigation is being conducted, with the participation of all relevant services.
So far, the police have had no reports of any injuries in the wider area of the scene, though several parked vehicles were damaged.
Out in the field, police teams specialised in dealing with and reacting to this type of event are present, and at the moment there is no reason for people to be alarmed.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Mariupol bombing: before and after satellite images
New satellite images taken on Wednesday show the extent of the destruction caused by Russian bombs in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine.
‘We have not even attacked Ukraine ’ - Sergei Lavrov.
An injured pregnant woman leaving a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine.
Sergei Lavrov claimed all pregnant women had been evacuated prior to shelling.
Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Knock loud I'm home
Looking for Lenin, Niels Ackermann
Theprintspace is running a charitable online art print sale which invites the public to view and purchase the photographs, all of which were taken in Ukraine.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history
Sobel created Milky Way (1945) two years before Pollock began experimenting with drip painting.
In 1938, a Ukrainian-born grandmother created one of art's biggest shocks – but it was attributed to the US painter Jackson Pollock.
For International Women's Day, Kelly Grovier explores the influence of Janet Sobel.
Monday, March 7, 2022
Oops!
A truck owned by a church supplies firm was today driven through the gates of the Russian embassy in Dublin.
Video footage showed the large supplies truck, which belonged to Desmond Wisley Ecclesiastical Supplies, reversing through the gates.
The Russian Embassy in DC just got a makeover with a smart new sign: President Zelensky Way
The sign, which is attached to a pole and cement base, was rolled over on a dolly at 2:30 pm yesterday by activist Claude Taylor.
“The route is not safe”
The message to those who have been trapped by days of brutal Russian shelling in the besieged city of 430,000 on the Sea of Azov was simple.
Do not come out, terrified residents were warned, until you hear a message on the loud speakers.
Do not try to evacuate, despite the promises by Russian forces of safe passage.
The warning was well founded. On the main road out – eyed as a key escape route – heavy Russian shelling continued on Monday, Ukrainian forces said. The previous day officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross had identified it as having been mined.
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