{"id":563235,"date":"2025-11-11T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:59:25","slug":"romania-finds-suspected-drone-fragments-after-russian-attack-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563235\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania finds suspected drone fragments after Russian attack on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania&#8217;s defence ministry said on Tuesday \u200bthat suspected drone fragments were found \u200c5 km (3.2 miles) inside its \u200cterritory following an overnight Russian attack on Ukrainian Danube river ports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The EU and NATO member shares a 650-km land border \u2060with Ukraine and \u200chas had drones breach its airspace and fragments fall onto its \u200dterritory repeatedly since Russia began attacking Kyiv&#8217;s ports across the Danube from Romania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weather conditions did \u200bnot allow Romania to scramble fighter jets \u200covernight, and the population in the area was alerted to take cover, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspected fragments were found near Grindu in the southeastern county \u2060of Tulcea near the \u200bDanube, the ministry \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Romania has received an advanced air defence system from the United States, \u200dwhich could \u2060enhance its ability to protect itself against drones entering its airspace, the \u2060defence ministry said last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u200cLuiza Ilie; Editing by Christian \u200cSchmollinger and Joe Bavier)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania&#8217;s defence ministry said on Tuesday \u200bthat suspected drone fragments were found \u200c5 km (3.2 miles)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[179375,71961,2000,299,179374,1438,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-563235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-danube-river","9":"tag-defence-ministry","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-fragments","13":"tag-romania","14":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115530246867512744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}