Russian Attack Drone Breaches NATO Airspace

A Russian drone breached Romania’s airspace during an overnight bombardment targeting Ukraine, the NATO nation’s defense ministry has said.

Russian drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets took place overnight Thursday, the ministry said. It added that Romanian air defenses monitored two air targets in the border area in Romania’s Tulcea county.

“One of the targets entered the airspace of our country, the radar contact with it being lost 16 km southeast of Chilia Veche over an uninhabited area,” the ministry said, according to a translation.

During the war in neighboring Ukraine, Romania has repeatedly scrambled its fighter jets in response to drone and missile threats posed by Russia, testing NATO’s collective defense agreement, Article 5.

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This story was originally published April 17, 2026 at 12:04 AM.