Ukraine Claims Russian Drones Hit NATO Member Romania; Bucharest Denies Report

Ukraine Claims Russian Drones Hit NATO Member Romania; Bucharest Denies Report
Ships anchored in the Black Sea await to enter the Sulina canal, one of the spilling points of the river Danube to the Black Sea in Sulina, south-eastern Romania, on June 8, 2022. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
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KYIV/BUCHAREST—Ukraine claimed on Sept. 4 that Russian drones fell and detonated in the territory of NATO member Romania during an overnight air strike on a Ukrainian port across the Danube River, although Bucharest denied that its territory had been hit.

Moscow has conducted long-range air strikes on targets in Ukraine since the start of its invasion last year. Since Moscow abandoned a deal in July that lifted a de facto Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, it has repeatedly struck Ukrainian river ports across the Danube from Romania.