By Ellie CookShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberNATO member Romania scrambled fighter jets as two Russian drones crossed into the country's airspace, Romania's defense ministry said on Tuesday.
Bucharest detected a target heading for its airspace close to the Ukrainian border and scrambled two German Typhoon fighter jets from a base in the southeast of the country shortly before 6:30 a.m. local time (12:30 a.m. ET), the ministry said.
Two Romanian F-16 jets were also scrambled, minutes before Romanian radars picked up a second drone breaching the country's airspace, the government said.
Drones have repeatedly crossed from Ukraine into Romanian airspace during Russian attacks since the start of its war full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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