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Romania’s ministry of national defence said on Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace. The drone’s entry into the Nato member’s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4.44am, the ministry said, about 24km (14.9 miles) north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighboring Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.
A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties “made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,” the ministry said. “The drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05.01.” The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10am on Sunday, about 1.5km (0.9 miles) from the coastal city of Constanta. Officials did not specify the drone’s origin.
The incident comes weeks after Romanian pilots shot down three drones over three days as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine near the border.