NATO member Romania scrambled fighters early on Wednesday, November 19, after the latest drone incursion into its territory, according to the defence ministry.
Two German fighter aircraft stationed in the territory were monitoring the aviation situation—at the border with Ukraine just after midnight following Russian air strikes—when the UAV movement came to light. The incident was later logged in a Romanian defence ministry press release.
A telephone alert was sent out to residents of southeastern Tulcea County, and “for a few minutes, the signal of a drone was detected, which had entered approximately eight kilometres into national airspace,” before it disappeared from radar.
The UAV then “reappeared intermittently on radar for approximately 12 minutes,” the ministry said, prompting the sending of an alert to residents in southeastern Galati County.
On September 26 this year, European Union member states held talks on the bloc’s plans for a ‘drone wall’—prompted by Russian UAV incursions into Lithuania, Poland, and Romania—with, to date, no apparent deterrent effect whatsoever.
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