Russian Drone Breached Romanian Airspace During Attack on Ukraine, Defense Ministry Says

The alleged incident follows the shooting down of suspected Russian drones by Poland after they entered that country’s airspace.

Police and army inspect damage to a house destroyed by debris from a Russian drone shot down over the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on Sept. 10, 2025. Photo by Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images

The Romanian Air Force detected and tracked an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on Sept. 13 that had strayed into the country’s airspace following Russian airstrikes on infrastructure in Ukraine, the Romanian Ministry of National Defence (MoND) said in a statement.

The ministry said that the UAV was spotted by the pilots of two F-16s after they had been scrambled from the 86th Air Base in Borcea commune, on an air patrol mission. The F-16s monitored the drone until it was approximately 12 miles southwest of Chilia Veche, at which point they lost radio contact.