Unidentified drones are probing Romania again

Romania scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after detecting a new incursion by an unidentified drone into its airspace, the defence ministry said, in the latest incident linked to Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian ports near the Danube.

In a statement, the ministry confirmed that the drone’s signal “appeared intermittently on radar for roughly 12 minutes” following overnight Russian attacks close to the Ukrainian border. It added that no debris or aircraft fragments were found on Romanian territory.

The NATO member has reported a growing number of airspace violations in recent months, as Russian forces continue targeting Ukrainian Danube River ports located just across Romania’s eastern frontier.

Last week, Romanian authorities recovered fragments of a drone in a populated area near the country’s southeastern border, after a series of evening strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure. Radar systems also detected clusters of drones approaching Romanian airspace shortly after midnight on 11 November, prompting emergency services to issue alerts to residents in northern Tulcea County, according to the Ministry of National Defence.