Leonardo Simaõ, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head, United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, said this while briefing the Security Council on Tuesday at the UN headquarters in New York.
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Kroslak succeeds Joanne Adamson of the United Kingdom, who recently completed her assignment.
The Army also declared three wounded and recovered from the assailants “several individual and collective weapons”.
The peacekeeping mission’s tanker truck, which was part of a logistics convoy, drove over the mine near the town of Tessalit in the Kidal region, on Friday, the MINUSMA Head, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, said.
More than 80 members of the UN mission, known as MINUSMA, have been killed since 2013 in attacks by militant groups active in the country’s north and centre