Romania shot down a fourth Russian drone over its territory in 2026
A Spanish F-18 fighter jet, operating as part of a NATO mission, shot down a Russian drone that had violated Romanian airspace.
The drone was detected by radar approximately 24 km north of the city of Galați. After establishing radar contact, the fighter jet received authorization to engage and shot down the drone at 5:01 a.m.
The debris likely fell in an uninhabited area between two villages. The Romanian Ministry of Defense has not officially specified the drone’s origin.
This is the fourth drone shot down by Romania since the beginning of 2026.
Source: CNN.
As a reminder, on Sunday, August 2, air raid sirens were sounded for the civilian population in eastern Romania for the second time that day. The country’s Ministry of Defense radar surveillance system detected an aerial target near the river border with Ukraine at 3:09 p.m.
In Poland, during a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine on the night of July 29–30, an air raid alert was issued in part of the Lublin Voivodeship. After the alert ended, a crater approximately 10 meters in diameter and debris from an unidentified object were discovered in a field near the villages of Tarnava-Kolonia and Tokary.
