First, there was information about a drone approaching the border near the city of Tulcea, located in the Danube Delta. Two Romanian F-16s were picked up, but the drone did not cross the country's border, the ministry said in a statement.
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Shortly thereafter, an alert was raised regarding the second drone. Two Eurofighter Typhoon fighters were sent, belonging to the air forces of Germany and Spain, stationed at the air base. Mihail Kogalniceanu near Constanta on the Black Sea. The unmanned aircraft briefly entered Romanian airspace and then left it, the Ministry of Defense announced.
Romania, a member of the European Union and NATO, shares a 650 km border with Ukraine. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago, Romania has repeatedly raised the alarm about drone incursions into its territory. In the border regions of Romania in the Danube Delta, fragments of Russian drones fell. According to Romanian authorities, these were drones used in airstrikes in Ukraine.
