EU’s von der Leyen warns of ‘escalating campaign of threats’ as Romania destroys naval drone – as it happened
Device was near country’s Neptun Deep gas platform in the Black SeaRomania’s military has destroyed a marine drone spotted just “a few hundred meters” from the Neptun Deep platform, a major offshore gas project in the Black Sea.The drone, spotted just “a few hundreds of meters” from the gas extraction works at the Neptun Deep platform located some 80 miles east of the city of Constanța, was destroyed by a Romanian F-16 fighter jet. Continue reading...
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Romania’s military has destroyed a marine drone spotted just “a few hundred meters” from the Neptun Deep platform, a major offshore gas project in the Black Sea. The drone, spotted just “a few hundreds of meters” from the gas extraction works at the Neptun Deep platform located some 80 miles east of the city of Constanța, was destroyed by a Romanian F-16 fighter jet. “Following the analyses carried out and in coordination with the President of Romania, in order to protect the lives of the several hundred people working on the platform and to secure the critical infrastructure, the decision was made to destroy the drone,” Romania’s defence minister Radu Miruță said in a post on Facebook.
Miruță added that Romanian officials confirmed with Kyiv that the vessel was “not of Ukrainian origin,” strongly suggesting Russian involvement amid heightened maritime tensions in the region. Earlier this month, Romanian army divers destroyed two Gerbera-type drones drifting in the country’s Black Sea