NATO member Romania will summon the Russian ambassador over a “new violation” of its airspace after its territory was hit by a drone that crashed during attacks on Ukraine. Bucharest made it known. Moscow has repeatedly attacked Ukraine's ports in the south, including areas on the border with Romania, since it withdrew this summer from a grain deal aimed at protecting exports across the Black Sea. According to the Romanian Ministry of Defense, a crater was found in an uninhabited area near the town of Grindu, in the county of Tulcea, opposite the port of Reni, in
Southern Ukraine, beyond the Danube. The crater was that
“Result of an uncontrolled crash of a deployed drone.”
“involved in the attack on Ukrainian port infrastructure,” it said
in the note. In response to the “new violation of Romanian airspace in violation of international law,” the head of the Russian diplomatic mission will be summoned, the Romanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that strongly condemned Moscow’s “repeated attacks.” Bucharest said consultations were underway with “NATO allies on developments on the Romania-Ukraine border, including today's incident.”
The Romanian army also discovered the drone during its flight
Radar monitoring system that “indicated a possible problem
unauthorized intrusion into national airspace, with a
Signal detected at low altitude on the way to Grindu.
In September and October, drone debris was discovered near the border with Ukraine in Romania, but authorities have done so
stressed that the country had not been targeted
intentionally. As a result, measures were taken to protect populations near the border with Ukraine, including the construction of air raid shelters in the village of Plauru in eastern Romania.
Ukraine today declared its air defense systems
They destroyed more than 40 drones developed in Iran
launched by Russian forces against the southern city
Odessa.