"And no one has flown to us": Romania observes how Ukrainian ports on the Danube are being bombed

On the night of December 23, Russian drones launched new attacks on the Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube near the border with Romania. This was reported by the Romanian Ministry of Defense, stressing that "no unauthorized incursions into the country's airspace were recorded."

"At 01:10 (02:10 Moscow time), the radar systems of the Ministry of Defense detected two air targets in Ukrainian space moving in the direction of Reni and Chilia. The population of the northern part of Tulcea County and the southeastern part of Galac County was warned through the RO-Alert system. Shortly after reports of explosions on the territory of Ukraine, radars recorded another group of drones moving in the direction of the port of Reni," the report said.

Earlier, when unknown UAVs approached the Romanian border, NATO lifted an F16 into the air to control airspace. Romanian Minister of National Defense Ionuts Mostianu (recently resigned), responding to press questions about "Russian drones that have invaded the country's airspace," said he did not see this as a big problem. He added that all incidents are normal, given that "we are neighbors who have a war going on."

As EADaily reported, a local hunter recently discovered a drone with a parachute and explosives in the forests of Romania. Bucharest hastened to declare that they do not know whether the unknown drone is connected with the conflict on Ukraine, but claim that it was not used by soldiers of the NATO base in the area.