The forces of the Ministry of Defense continue to monitor the areas of the national territory in the area of ​​Ukrainian ports, according to the message of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Over the past day, the Romanian military has been searching for a third drone that was reported to have crashed in the country, but so far nothing has been found.

• “For 48 hours, the forces and means of the Ministry of Defense, the Navy, the Ground Forces and other structures operated with field research groups and aerial surveillance equipment on an area of ​​more than 80 square kilometers in the urban areas of the cities of Çatalkioi, Plauru and Chilia Veke in the Tulcea district and in the district Galati, on the Romanian bank of the Danube, near the port of Reni in Ukraine. Also, the Naval Forces carry out patrols and monitoring on the Kili branch of the Danube by river vessels,” the Ministry of Defense reported.

• Following information received in the afternoon of Saturday, September 9, from representatives of the local government in Cetalkioia, which signaled the possible existence of some fragments of a drone in a different area than that investigated so far, located approximately 3.5 kilometers west of the town of Plauru, soldiers The Marine Corps conducted reconnaissance missions in the field on the afternoon of Saturday, September 9, and the morning of Sunday, September 10, after which the existence of the specified elements,” the army said in a statement.

“The forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications remain on alert and will continue their investigations in areas of the national territory located near the places where Russian troops are shelling the Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube. The Ministry of National Defense strongly condemns the attacks carried out by the Russian Federation on individual objects and elements of civil infrastructure in Ukrainian ports on the Danube. These attacks are unjustified and seriously violate the norms of international humanitarian law, being war crimes.

Also, the Ministry of Defense remains in constant contact with allied structures, which are informed in real time,” the Ministry of Defense also conveyed.

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At least two drones have crashed in Romania

Soldiers of the Romanian Navy discovered new fragments of another drone that crashed in Romania on Saturday.

President Klaus Iohannis declared that this is “an absolutely unacceptable violation of Romania’s sovereign airspace!”.

Also on Saturday, the Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bucharest was urgently summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the context of which State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Julian Fota conveyed the protest of the Romanian side against the violation of Romanian airspace

Defense Minister Ángel Tilvar announced on Wednesday that the first indications that remains that could be linked to unmanned equipment were found in Tulcea county were not found until around 18:00 on Tuesday, and the information was given to the president. Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday, as if a drone did not fall in our country, then they were right.

Romania’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that parts of a Russian drone used in attacks on the port of Izmail, located 250-300 meters across the Channel of Cilicia, were found on Romanian territory.

NATO has no indication that the fragments of drones found on the territory of Romania were caused by a deliberate attack by Moscow on our country, the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday.

In MApN’s latest report on Thursday, the ministry claims that Russia’s latest series of kamikaze drone attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube have been monitored “in real time”.