Spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) Corneliu Pavel announced on Tuesday morning that at around 10:00 the RO-ALERT messages for Tulcea, Vrancea and Galati counties were lifted as no target was appearing on the radar surveillance system any longer.
‘At 10:00 the RO-ALERT messages for Tulcea and Vrancea counties ended and at 10:08 the RO-ALERT message for Galati County also ended. It was an exceptional situation we were facing, though not the first. So far this is the thirteenth unauthorised incursion of an unmanned aerial vehicle into Romania’s airspace. (…) No target is appearing on the radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence anymore,’ Pavel said.
‘Since the beginning of the brutal and aggressive war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, a democratic European state, thirteen incursions of aerial targets, unmanned aerial vehicles, have been recorded in Romania’s airspace and there have been more than forty instances in which drone elements or fragments have fallen on Romanian territory,’ the MApN spokesperson added.
The Ministry of National Defence’s radars detected on Tuesday morning a target heading towards national airspace near Tulcea County. At 06:28 two German Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft were scrambled from the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base to monitor the situation, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of National Defence.
The target crossed national airspace from the direction of Valcov (Ukraine) to the area of Chilia Veche, Tulcea County.
At 06:55 a RO-ALERT message was issued for Tulcea County.
At 07:11 the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft reported radar contact with the target above Ukrainian territory outside Romania’s airspace.
At 07:37 two F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft were scrambled from the 86th Air Base Borcea and at 07:48 a RO-ALERT message was also issued for Galati County.
At 07:50 the radar systems detected a second incursion into national airspace in the area of Galati County and the F-16 aircraft had radar contact with it. AGERPRES
