Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets due to Russian drone attack on Ukraine
Kyiv • UNN
Due to the shelling of Ukrainian Vylkove, an alert was declared in Tulcea County and aircraft were scrambled. No violations of Romanian airspace were recorded.
Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets due to a Russian attack on Ukraine near the border, the country's Ministry of National Defense announced on Tuesday, UNN reports.
On Tuesday morning, April 14, Russian troops resumed drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania, in Tulcea County.
As stated, "after detecting a group of drones operating near Romanian airspace (north of Vylkove), the National Military Command Center informed the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations about establishing measures to alert the population in the northern Tulcea County, and at 03:48 an RO-Alert message was transmitted."
Two F-16 aircraft of the Romanian Air Force from the air policing combat service took off from the 86th Air Base in Fetești, and air defense systems were put on alert. No incursions into national airspace were detected.
The air raid alert, as stated, was lifted at 04:45.
"The Ministry of National Defense has informed and continues to inform allied structures in real time about the situations caused by the attacks, remaining in constant contact with them," the statement said.
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