{"id":18676,"date":"2025-09-15T08:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=18676"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:13:18","slug":"moscow-invasion-of-romania-airspace-irresponsible-act-says-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/moscow-invasion-of-romania-airspace-irresponsible-act-says-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Invasion of Romania Airspace \u2018irresponsible\u2019 act says Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Romania has condemned Moscow\u2019s \u201cirresponsible actions\u201d after alleging that a Russian drone<\/a> breached Romanian airspace during an attack on neighboring Ukraine, prompting Bucharest to scramble fighter jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian drone used in attacks on Ukraine entered Romanian airspace at 6.05 p.m. local time on Saturday, according to Romania\u2019s defense ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident comes days after Poland shot down Russian drones<\/a> that had violated its airspace earlier this week \u2013 prompting NATO allies to pledge to beef up defenses on the alliance\u2019s eastern flank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drone was intercepted by two F-16 fighter jets<\/a>, which were carrying out an air patrol mission in northern Dobruja and, according to the ministry, came close to downing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drone orbited for about 50 minutes, according to a statement from the defense ministry, before leaving national airspace near the town of Pardina in northern Dobruja, heading towards Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian Ministry of Defense has not commented on the claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The F-16 fighter jets had intermittent contact with the drone \u2013 visually and by radar \u2013 the statement said. Its pilots received authorization to shoot it down but decided not to open fire after assessing the collateral risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Ministry of National Defense firmly condemns the irresponsible actions of the Russian Federation and emphasizes that they represent a new challenge to regional security and stability in the Black Sea area,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry added that the incident demonstrates a \u201clack of respect for the norms of international law\u201d by Russia. It also endangers the safety of Romanian citizens and the collective security of NATO, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Romanian foreign minister summoned the Russian ambassador to the country, Vladimir Lipaev, on Sunday, according to Defense Minister Ionut Mosteanu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lipaev rejected the foreign minister\u2019s statements to him and called the incident \u201canother provocation of the Kyiv regime,\u201d Russian state media TASS reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaja Kallas, the EU\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, condemned the violation of Romanian airspace as \u201cyet another unacceptable breach of an EU member state\u2019s sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis continued reckless escalation threatens regional security,\u201d Kallas wrote in a post on X. \u201cWe stand in solidarity with Romania. I am in close contact with the Romanian government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X Saturday: \u201cToday, Romania scrambled combat aircraft because of a Russian drone in its airspace. According to current data, the drone penetrated about 10 kilometers (around 6 miles) into Romanian territory and operated in NATO airspace for around 50 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of the incident, Zelensky reiterated calls for sanctions against Russia and collective defense. \u201cDo not wait for dozens of \u2018shaheds\u2019 and ballistic missiles before finally making decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romania has condemned Moscow\u2019s \u201cirresponsible actions\u201d after alleging that a Russian drone breached Romanian airspace during an attack on neighboring Ukraine, prompting Bucharest to scramble fighter jets. The Russian drone used in attacks on Ukraine entered Romanian airspace at 6.05 p.m. local time on Saturday, according to Romania\u2019s defense ministry. The incident comes days after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-9.png?fit=660%2C447&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18678,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676\/revisions\/18678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}