Russian drone enters Romanian airspace before being shot down in Ukraine
A Russian drone violated Romanian airspace before returning to Ukraine, where it was shot down by air defence on Wednesday 14 October.
Source: European Pravda, citing Romanian Ministry of National Defence
Details: The radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence detected a new aerial asset moving near the border with Romania on the morning of 14 October.
At 10:19, an RO-Alert message was sent to residents in the east and north of Tulcea County.
Two F-16 aircraft of the Romanian Air Force were scrambled from the 86th Borcea Air Base.
Quote: "The asset briefly remained in national airspace, in the eastern part of the settlement of Sulina, over the Black Sea, after which it entered the airspace of Ukraine, where it was brought down by Ukrainian air defence."
The all-clear was given at 11:22.
Background:
- This was the second incident on that day. On the morning of Wednesday 14 October, the Romanian radar surveillance system detected three aerial assets moving near Vylkove in Ukrainian territory, close to the border with Romania.
- On the night of 5-6 October, Romania scrambled allied aircraft to monitor two assets moving along the border with Ukraine.
- On the night of 2 October, Romania recorded the crash of a suspected drone on its territory amidst Russian attacks on Ukrainian regions.
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