Romania’s Defence Ministry (MApN) announced on Wednesday that Romania’s airspace was not violated by the drones used by Russia to attack Ukrainian settlements on the banks of the Danube, the Romanian-Ukrainian border, the previous night, and that prior approval was granted for the shooting down of the air targets that would have entered the national airspace.
Early on Wednesday morning, the MApN surveillance systems identified a group of drones that were moving on the Chilia branch of the Danube, Danube Delta, and according to the procedures, two F-16 aircraft from the 86th Borcea Air Base took off, around 00:50hrs to monitor the situation.
„About 10 explosions were reported on the Ukrainian side, in the area of Ismail and Chilia, but no unmanned aerial vehicles were detected in Romania’s airspace. The mission commander had the prior approval for shooting down air targets, had they entered the national airspace and endangered the security of the citizens of Romania,” according to…
