Romania summoned Russia’s ambassador for another violation of its airspace

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, citing the newspaper “De Welt” in Germany, Romania After a drone crashed in its territory, it summoned the Russian ambassador. This suspected Russian drone crashed on Thursday night in the southeast of this country.

Thus, Romania summoned the Russian ambassador after a drone crashed on its territory near the Ukrainian border. The country’s foreign ministry said in Bucharest on Thursday that it was a “new violation of Romanian airspace”.

Romania also informed its NATO allies about the incidents and sent fighter jets to monitor He sent his airspace. According to the information, the drone created a 1.5-meter-deep crater in an uninhabited area near the village of Grindo.

Russian drone attacks on Ukraine prompted an alert on Thursday night by German Eurofighters. According to the German news agency, the Russian planes were detected by German crews through visual contact without NATO orders to shoot them down. More than 70 UAVs witnessed 136 Russian drones in the wave of attacks on targets in Ukraine, and according to preliminary findings, one of them exploded over Romania’s airspace.

According to this information, the attack from At 21:42 German time it was noticed and monitored by a multinational command post for the management of NATO air forces (“Combined Air Operations Center”). Accordingly, the order to start the alarm (“Alpha Scramble”) was given at 22:02 and armed fighter planes were in the air at 22:11. This incident was evaluated as significant.

The German Air Force is currently participating in the security of NATO’s southeastern flank with four fighter planes and armed protection flights from the Romanian Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanta. .

So far, there have been several airspace violations on the Romanian side of the border with Ukraine, all of which were related to Russian attacks on Ukrainian Danube ports. However, the analysis, which was described as very detailed, has so far shown that these cases were not done intentionally by Russia. used by Russia or their remnants on NATO soil, the German army announced that it would help Romania with armed protection flights and an anti-drone device. against drones to protect Romania’s borders, and the German Air Force participates in securing NATO’s southeastern flank with armed protection flights.

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