After a drone incursion, Romania sends fighters to monitor the airspace
Sent Romaniain Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.
In the latest incident, two German fighters deployed as part of a NATO mission were monitoring the skies shortly after midnight on the border with Ukraine following Russian air strikes, according to a statement by the Romanian Ministry of Defense.
A warning was sent to the phones of residents of Tulcea (south-east) and"For several minutes, a drone signal was detected that penetrated approximately eight kilometers into national airspace" Before it disappeared from the radar.
A plane collided with the ground
The ministry said that the drone appeared again. "Intermittently on the radar for approximately 12 minutes"A warning was also sent to residents of the Glaz region (southeast).
She explained that "Two more F-16s of the Romanian Air Force were sent" To monitor the atmosphere, adding that "There have been no reported cases of an aircraft colliding with the ground".
And she continued "Teams of specialists are ready to begin search operations on the ground"
On Monday, Romania ordered the evacuation of two villages in the first evacuation of its kind in the country as a result of the war in Ukraine, after an attack on a Russian march across the Danube River in neighboring Ukraine caused the burning of a ship carrying liquefied petroleum gas.
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