Romania’s defense ministry said on May 16 that an unexploded projectile was discovered on a property near the country’s border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The projectile was found in the yard of an uninhabited house in the village of Pardina in Romania’s Tulcea County, the ministry said in a statement<\/a>. Romania shares a 650-kilometer (400-mile) border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n The ministry described the object as an “unguided reactive projectile” but did not specify its suspected origin.<\/p>\n “Technical checks confirmed the presence of two kilograms (4.4 lbs) of explosives in the projectile body,” the statement said, adding that authorities had secured the area.<\/p>\n The Romanian Defense Ministry later confirmed<\/a> that the “the projectile was detonated in a controlled manner.”<\/p>\n Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Romania has reported multiple incidents involving debris and airspace violations linked to attacks near the border.<\/p>\n Russian drones targeting Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube River have on several occasions crossed into Romanian airspace<\/a>, while fragments have fallen on Romanian territory after Ukrainian forces shot them down.<\/p>\n Last month, an explosive drone landed in a backyard in the city of Galati, marking the first time since the start of the war that such an incident caused property damage in Romania.<\/p>\n Romania<\/a>, a member of NATO, has emerged as one of Kyiv’s key regional partners since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a>. Bucharest has provided military assistance, supported sanctions against Russia, and signed a bilateral security agreement with Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romania’s defense ministry said on May 16 that an unexploded projectile was discovered on a property near the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":965360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-965359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116586582019917208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965359","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=965359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}